James Thurber
James Thurber
James Grover Thurberwas an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent, he wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal, later adapted into a film, which starred Henry Fonda and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 December 1894
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
He was quite confident. He's smart, articulate and polite.
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
The question of whether the vice president was involved, we'll probably never know. But it was pretty close to him,
You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward
As the Justice Department gets closer and closer to him through his aides, and if he is in more trouble, certainly the Democrats will use that.
The grand jury investigation has the possibility of really shining a light on the credibility of the administration, how officials tried to undermine those who were criticizing them and how they then covered up that attempt.
what they are running from, and to, and why.