“It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.”
Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11
“It's amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.”
Source: Self-Annihilating Sentences, 1992, p. 11
“It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."”
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 258
Trump's lines in a McDonald's advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QNXnNftWk (2002), quoted in * 2019-01-15 Rachel Desantis Donald Trump’s lifelong love of fast food, from his 2002 McDonald’s commercial to ‘hamberders’ New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-donald-trump-has-always-loved-fast-food-20190115-story.html
2000s
“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”
Source: The Professor Of Desire
In questo mondo, quante cose sonc e non sembrano! e quante poi sembrano e non sono!
La Scomessa, Act I., Sc. III. — (Il Marchese.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 325.
Variant: It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Source: Peeps