A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Language is wine upon the lips.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Music is like film to me.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.