335 Quotes by James Thurber

You name the issue. There would be a lot of oversight hearings. He will be a true lame duck.

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn’t monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

I won’t be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged,” said Clode. “If I want a book, I’ll get a book.

This heavish sweety fragrance,’ Thag muttered to himself, ‘that rises, or that roses, isn’t fit for human noses, and it tricks the minds of men. Three times two is eight,’ he said, ’and one is ten.

American girls often marry someone they can’t stand to spite someone they can.

Don’t get it right, just get it written.