Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

Life: my favorite occupation.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.