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Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the
humorous ... After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and
rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the
seats locomote through a short
Heroi Stephen Pile
April 1
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
Heroi Stephen Pile
Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
Heroi Stephen Pile
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the
sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Heroi Stephen Pile
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity? If Gladstone fell into
the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again,
it would be a calamity.
Heroi Stephen Pile
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important.
Heroi Stephen Pile
People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to
amuse them.
Heroi Stephen Pile
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
Pile Stephen
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
Pile Stephen
So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
Pile Stephen
Alea iacta est.
[The die is cast]
Pile Stephen
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
Pile Stephen
A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
Stephen Pile
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
we speak.
Stephen Pile
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Random Quote
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last
you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his
Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
Twain Mark
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