I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting but at the same time a little sad.

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you of the two the latter is far better.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot he will never flatter his country in any respect.

As I grew up I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

An external electric field meeting it and passing through it affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom and pushes the former to one side and the latter in the other direction.

In politics yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.