A simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.
It is always healthy to be honest.
Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alien...
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Pa...
From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.
He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these a...