If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Modern romance novels tell a young woman that she can be successful, useful, and valuable on her own; that there are men who will respect her and treat her well; and that such men are worth waiting for.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

In agriculture, whatever you plan and execute takes 2-3 years to have an impact.

Is there such a thing as a cheerful pessimist? That’s what I am.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. Its what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.

Voters crave authenticity.

When ones expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

Time Bomb encapsulates everything I have learned over the years and wished I could find in a capsule collection. It's the absolute best skincare and body products I could envisage - and I am fussy. I am now able to indulge my love of beauty products and call it research.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

Because I would give it all back to have my health.

Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.