#his

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ↗

— James Thurber

#bed #butler #cope #described #formidable

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#abyss #battle #courage #die #entering

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. ↗

— Alfred A. Knopf

#editor #him #his #job #looks

No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#did #discuss #discussed #eggs #every

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#fails #failure #forgiven #his #never

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#become #destiny #fulfill #himself #his

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#films #his #i #john #john carpenter

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#challenge #continue #existence #god #his

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. ↗

— Ed Koch

#afghanistan #also #being #buddha #clinton

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#early #early work #every #every time #hardest