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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.

The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.

I'd heard street food was a big thing here in Mexico but I didn't think it meant the creatures that lived on the street.

I'm fine. I'm at an antique store, by the clothes store just a mile or so from-" "Which clothes store, Tess? If you haven't noticed, there are about a million.