Al Goodman Quotes
Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.
But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.
The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.
TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.
People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.
Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.
There they were sitting at the bar, these two Luscious babes, and they were Siamese twins.
As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.
instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.
Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.
I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.
What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.
We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list.
When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.