H. L. Mencken Quotes
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
H. L. Mencken
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the 1990s, when we had some of the most disgusting legislation in terms of our criminal justice, really, in this country's history.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Jack Bruce
Cream
I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
Anton Zaslavski
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Jackson Pollock
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism.
Tyler Cowen
Tremble, thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes
Unwhipped of justice.
William Shakespeare
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
Albert Brooks
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man who has a well-furnished European apartment with an excellent toilet and a well-furnished dogma.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
Eric Ripert
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
H. L. Mencken
