B. Priestley
B. Priestley
celebrity
... especially if you're a celebrity in this town.
communication elaborate english-scientist less means
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
begun elaborate less means whisper
Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
society
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
delight nobody realize relief reporting reports school thank
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
communication mean talking
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
birthday perfect age
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
blessing joy count-your-blessings
To multiply your joy, count your blessings.
writing ideas instruments
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
soccer men two
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
grace gadgets
We cannot get grace from gadgets.
party years missing
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.
dream destiny men
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.
writing odds challenges
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.