| QUOTES |
| I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. |
| I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans. |
| I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. |
| If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it. |
| St. Louis is baseball all american style. Not like Philly, not like New York, not like anywhere else. In St. Louis the fans care about the game. Here they talk strategy, the hit-and-run, the squeeze play, the defensive alignment; the fans didn't care about off-field controversies. |
| You gotta be careful with your body. Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down. |
| I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. |
| I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. |
| It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. |
| Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! |
| Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real. |
| Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. |
| Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. |
| Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. |
| Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything. |
| My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. |
| Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. |
| While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. |
| Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. |
| Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. |
| Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture? |
| Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. |
| Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution. |
| I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth. |
| I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. |
| I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me! |
| I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. |
| I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. |
| I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. |
| I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him. |
| It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. |
| Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. |
| My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. |
| On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. |
| Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time. |
| The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. |
| The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. |
| You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. |
| You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field. |
| A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. |
| If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. |
| A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. |
| For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! |
| Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. |
| May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. |
| Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. |
| That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. |
| The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. |
| The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. |
| What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. |
| I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. |
| I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them. |
| In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. |
| The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. |
| The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward. |
| We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there. |
| What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential? |
| When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help. |
| A dozen years is a long time in the world of publishing. The market is more fragmented and competitive than ever, and overall readership is down. Finding a niche is the first challenge; inserting a book into that niche is the second. |
| A good editor-and I don't claim to be one-can deduce the ideal elements of a writer's style and story and administer the necessary guidance to trick the writer into revealing it. |
| A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. |
| A year or so ago, I considered writing a mainstream novel and, despite several time-consuming efforts, I just couldn't come up with a concept that made my ears wiggle and didn't involve fantasy-genre elements. |
| All authors are created equal, but, as the editor, I'm somewhat more equal than all the others. |
| As an author, you're usually responsible for both the creation and evolution of your characters, but in a shared world, the evolution of your character is at least partially determined by what your character does in response to situations you didn't create. |
| Because I'd been involved in the creation of a successful shared-world it was assumed that I'd know the rules in other shared worlds, so the invitations flowed my way. |
| Before I was a writer I was a computer programmer. |
| Compatibility problems are touchier. Sometimes author A does something that sends author B right through the roof and the editor has to scramble to play peacemaker. |
| Continuity problems are fairly straightforward, with absolute conflicts being the easiest to resolve. If writer A and writer B both lay claim to the same piece of real estate or character, it's usually possible to come up with a chronology that allows both stories to exist. |
| Contractual considerations are very important in shared-world or work-for-hire situations. I make sure I know exactly what's expected. |
| During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. |
| Editorial processes are subjective, based on what's available at a given moment in time, and ultimately unfair. |
| Editors of invitation-only anthologies tend to be a secretive lot. We're looking for very specific things in our story mix and know the voices we're looking for to round out the chorus. |
| Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. |
| Every so often I'd be able to write a scene with greater flourish because I'd gotten lucky with my words as I was writing them down, but no surprises. |
| Flaws of style and sequence would fairly leap off the page and the means to correct them would, too. |
| For a good fiction writer-and that includes writers of SF and Fantasy-there is simply no such thing as useless research. I never pass up an opportunity to learn how something is made or used. |
| For me, the rise and fall of the 1980s incarnation of TW was deeply personal and intertwined with the rise and fall of my marriage to co-editor, Robert Asprin. |
| For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. |
| Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and understanding of a writer's mood, but, truly, it takes one to know one. |
| Gamers, especially the game masters, who are the primary audience for any game box, want precision because that's what the players want. |
| Getting the new anthologies up and running has had its share of unexpected pitfalls. I hope I'm not being naive or unduly optimistic when I think that, time-wise, the worst is over. |
| I always make sure I have an escape clause that allows me to pull my name off a project if I have to abandon it. |
| I can usually tell the difference between a short story idea and a novel-length one when someone describes the idea to me. |
| I construct timelines for each story and a master timeline for sequencing the stories in the volume. |
| I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. |
| I do keep a small file of samples from not-yet-invited authors. The cold, cruel fact is that I wouldn't be doing any of them a favor if I asked for a story. |
| I don't have any signed contracts right now, but my agent's out there shaking the bushes vigorously. |
| I don't so much think of myself a fantasy writer as a writer of histories of places that don't exist. I'd like to write the histories of places and people that have existed, but I've never been satisfied with the completeness of my research. |
| I don't strive for perfect continuity, which is good, because I'd never achieve it. |
| I guess it's good to be known for something. |
| I have a problematic relationship with magic: when push comes to shove, I don't believe in it. |
| I have some history books that I come back to when I'm trying to debug my worlds. |
| I love writing Thieves' World, but I feel a responsibility, too, to the other authors. I've lost many nights' sleep worrying if I've made the sandbox too large, too small. |
| I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. |
| I was one of those rare and fortunate writers who did not go through an amateur period of creating unpublished/unpublishable fiction. I didn't actually start writing with professional intent until a golden opportunity fell into my lap. |
| I went to Oklahoma to recover from a shattering divorce and I couldn't have found a better, safer haven, but in time I realized that I needed to be closer to my parents, which entailed moving to Florida. |
| I wish I knew how to imagine a short story, because I rather like the form, but they're too time-consuming for me to write on a regular basis. |
| I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. |
| I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. |
| I'm always trolling for trivia. |
| I'm currently working on my third book about Emma Merrigan, curse hunter and university librarian. |
| I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. |
| I'm no athlete and my piano lessons were going nowhere; I got good marks in school, but there were always kids who outshined me-until I wrote a short story. |
| I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. |
| I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. |
| I've always seen Thieves' World from two perspectives-as a business property and as a creative sandbox. |
| I've developed a reputation as someone who can turn a sow's ear into a silk purse when it comes to pulling a story out of a murky milieu, and that keeps my name in circulation. |
| I've done a lot of shared-worlds and work-for-hire. Ask me if I think it's always been good for my career and the unequivocal answer is No, but it's paid the bills when the bills. |
| I've got two degrees in medieval history. |
| I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. |
| I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead me in other directions. |
| Ideas are a writer's cheapest commodity. If I never had another idea, I still couldn't write my way through all the notions rattling around in my hindbrain this morning. |
| Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. |
| If all my dreams come true, I'll have a chance to write a straight-up historical... It won't be an easy task... My Latin's gotten very rusty over the years. |
| If I aim for a short-story idea, I then get to spend the next portion of my life removing 90,000 words from what my imagination generated. |
| If I want to write SF, I'll have to write it under another name. |
| If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. |
| In a general sense, all my protagonists eventually find themselves in situations so totally beyond their control that all they can do is hunker down and trust their fallible guts. |
| In my high-school sophomore English class, we were given that hoary old assignment: write a short story. The Berlin Wall had just gone up and I decided to write a short story about a group of friends whose lives had been divided. |
| In the last few years I've become more reliant on the Internet for research. I'm addicted to Google. |
| In the process of defending the integrity of my story, I would clean up the structural problems without focusing on them. I've used it myself with the writers I've mentored. |
| It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. |
| It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. |
| It's been great to work cooperatively with a group of talented authors again, but the book world has become an unforgiving place and it remains to be seen if Thieves' World can reestablish a toehold in a sufficient number of imaginations to become a regularly scheduled product. |
| It's harder to get stand-alone material published, but it's worth the wait and effort, and then, if you really want to do a Star Trek novel, you can pretty much dictate the terms. |
| It's only recently that the special effects industry has evolved enough to be able to handle the demands of fantasy and/or science fiction economically enough that there's enough money left over to buy a decent script. |
| It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. |
| Last year I went on a Venice jag and now I'm planning a fantasy that's set in an environment that's not quite Venice but owes a lot to last year's reading. |
| Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series. |
| Magical realism is based on magical magic, that is, the happening of things that cannot be explained by the characters and are not explained by the author. |
| Most books don't translate successfully into movies and one of the criticisms against an author like John Grisham, whose books are regularly made into movies, is that he's actually writing screenplays, not novels. |
| Most readers seemed to like the never-ending conflict, but politics is not sword and sorcery, and Thieves' World, at its best, was down-and-dirty sword and sorcery. Sales were starting to drop off. |
| My magic is always empirical-it can be analyzed and replicated. |
| My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter. |
| My professional career began in early 1977 when I was recuperating from an auto accident. With one ankle broken and the other severely sprained, I found myself thinking that I could write a novel. |
| My reading is pre-screened. It takes a special talent to read dozens and dozens of stories looking for the handful that merit inclusion in a magazine or anthology. |
| My teacher decided that some of stories needed to be read aloud. I read without interruption-I mean totally without interruption: there wasn't a sound in the classroom until I finished and then my fellow students and my teacher applauded. |
| My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. |
| Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. |
| No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. |
| Nothing is too obscure for my interest. You just never know when some quirk of science or history is going to prove useful. |
| On the one hand, I'm looking for good stylists and storytellers who can play well with others and, on the other, I'm trying to keep Tor happy by delivering a manuscript they can market the heck out of. |
| Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. |
| One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. |
| One of the risks I took was turning one of the classic fairy-tale tropes on its head. Fairy-tales tend to be about young people on the brink of adulthood discovering their destiny, powers. I had a heroine who was far enough into her adulthood to be thinking about golden years and retirement plans. |
| Our authors spent as much time conspiring with one another as they did writing their stories. Over time, this meant that we published fewer stories complete in and of themselves and many, perhaps too many, that never really came to a satisfactory conclusion. |
| Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated. |
| Persistence pays and so does a willingness to follow directions. |
| Right now I think the most interesting SF and fantasy is being done in serial television where a few sets and what have devolved into moderate-price special effects are used to support an ensemble cast and stories that focus on characters. |
| Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. |
| Some of the best advice I can give an aspiring author is trivial. Most times an editor doesn't know you from a hole in the wall when he/she opens the envelope containing your story. That manuscript is your avatar-it stands for you and makes your first impression. |
| Thanks to bigger and better computers and their indexing capacities, I hope to keep a tighter control on what is, or isn't, in the canon, but there will always be inconsistencies, deliberate and accidental. |
| That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. |
| The actual process of selling my first novel was exciting at the time. I was no longer an apprentice but had become a journeyman. |
| The books I've written for gaming companies are a like games of miniature golf where the object is to weave an interesting story through an obstacle course. |
| The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. |
| The most annoying risk that I find associated with work-for-hire situations is somebody's always trying to move the goal posts. It's a good idea to nail those suckers down before I start the first draft. |
| The quality of editing in the work-for-hire world is generally a few notches below what you'd find elsewhere, and I've had a few run-ins with editors who thought they were really collaborators. That can be very annoying. |
| There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. |
| There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid. |
| Thieves' World is otherwise known as the project that ate my life in the '80s. |
| Time really can heal wounds. By the mid-90s, when I realized that I was signing books that were older than the readers offering them to me, I began to reconsider my position. |
| To feel free enough to write at all, I have to give my research a twist that allows me to say, Okay, this is NOT 12th century France. |
| We're out to prove the naysayers wrong. Maybe a shared-world anthology can't hit the bestseller lists in this day and age, but one, at least, is going to survive. |
| We've had a few inquiries from companies and individuals looking to develop an interactive, web-based game but, to date, none of them have progressed to the contract and license stage. |
| Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over. |
| When done well, the shared universes are richer than their single-creator counterparts. |
| When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. |
| When I started out, I thought being a writer was all about writing. Writing is important, but the business of a writer is publishing and the realities of publishing can be very limiting, even unpleasant. |
| When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. |
| When I'm writing my own material, I've full control over creation and evolution, vertical and horizontal, the whole nine yards. It's the most satisfying type of writing, and also the most difficult because while all the triumphs are mine, so are all the mistakes. |
| Whenever I encounter an article that makes my ears wiggle, I give it a number, write a summary for my database and put the article in a file cabinet. Searching the database is faster and easier than trying to have a fancy filing system. |
| Writing genre fantasy requires a few more research twists, most of them involving magic. By the time I start the first draft, whatever magic system I've built is meant to seem fundamental to the world I've created, but it's really an afterthought. |
| You usually don't get the copyright or reprint rights in a shared-world or work-for-hire situation, so your ability to make additional money off your work is limited. |
| I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight. |
| I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results. |
| My device was setup in my backyard and the other one math instructor Raymond Crilley was using in Iowa City. |
| Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. |
| These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. |
| We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. |
| Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. |
| I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. |
| Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term - selectivity. |
| Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. |
| Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. |
| Photography helps people to see. |
| Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. |
| The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. |
| The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. |
| There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. |
| What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography. |
| A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity. |
| Beginning drivers seem to make a lot of jerky movements with the wheel. Actually they're making smooth movements to very short horizons. |
| Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts you'll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier. |
| 'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. |
| I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end. |
| If you want to catch fish, and really enjoy the sport, you will maintain your lures and line in some organized fashion. The best at it will always have their tackle ready. |
| It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative. |
| 'Land on Mars' as a project still comes down to something like 'Call Fred about the Mars budget proposal' that can be accomplished as soon and as easily as any other activity in our inventory of work at hand. |
| Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game. |
| My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard. |
| Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work. |
| So in order to achieve clarity and be fully and positively engaged in what you're doing, you must (1) know the goal or outcome you're intending and (2) decide and take the next physical move to propel you in that direction. |
| Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the decks. |
| The next time you want to hires someone and are evaluating performance and skill sets, look at the person's ability to get ready fast. When has she been really surprised (positively or negatively)? How long did it take her to integrate it and navigate a positive response? |
| As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. |
| At age nine I began serving long stints in juvenile detention quarters. At age twelve I was sent to the Utah State Industrial School For Boys... at age eighteen I was released as an adult. |
| Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. |
| How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast? |
| I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months. |
| I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. |
| I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. |
| I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. |
| I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. |
| Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. |
| My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. |
| Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. |
| One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. |
| Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. |
| So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself. |
| That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. |
| The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive. |
| The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. |
| The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. |
| There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. |
| To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. |
| When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. |
| When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. |
| A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden ''worthless'' land now has an airport on it. |
| A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres. |
| All Hawaii beaches are open to the public - there's no such thing as a private beach. |
| All the land was held in common at one point in the feudal society of the kingdom on behalf of the people - with all the usual attendant tales of chicanery and stupidity and sometimes nobility and kind-heartedness and low-dealing and all the rest. |
| Are the Native Hawaiians going to be able to control their own land and their own money? When the land was seen as worthless, nobody gave a damn. |
| At the same time there's a history in Hawaii of the emergence from pre-feudal separate islands into a kingdom, into a shotgun republic, into an annexed territory, and then into a state. |
| Everybody got interested in ''How do I get mine?'' Which motivates, I think, 99 percent of the opposition to the bill. |
| Fundamentally, the land was held in common and administered by a group of nobles called the alii on behalf of the common good. |
| I came to Hawaii in 1959 with statehood, and of course the whole foundation of this multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic society in Hawaii is the aloha spirit, the legacy of the Polynesian pioneers. |
| I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, ''Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?'' ''Well, we have no mechanism to do it,'' I was told. |
| In 1920, a couple hundred thousand acres had been set aside called ''Hawaiian homelands.'' The idea was to rehabilitate Hawaiians by letting them homestead on acreage set aside for them. |
| In highly affluent areas, between multi-million dollar estates, you'll see a right of way so that anybody can get their surfboard and walk between these estates and get down to the beach, which is public. |
| In this rainbow society that we have, it became very apparent to me after I entered into an electoral political life that the question of settling the issues on the assets of the Hawaiians is what the Akaka bill is about. |
| Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all. |
| Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. |
| So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. |
| So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. |
| The ceded lands, or crown lands, were always seen as those which had previously been held in trust for the people and remained held in trust for them, but administered by whomever - the territory first, and now the state of Hawaii. |
| The Iolani Palace is right downtown in Honolulu, the only palace in the country. |
| The thing that distinguishes them as Native Hawaiians is that Native Hawaiians were part of their racial and ethnic heritage. |
| There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in. |
| There's a series of benefits - educational, health, etc. - that benefit Native Hawaiians. The revenues are starting to mount into the millions. |
| We made stabs in the legislature to try to relieve the state of both the burden and obligation of administering lands that otherwise were construed as belonging to Native Hawaiians historically. |
| Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. |
| When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes. |
| When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. |
| You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year. |
| And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline. |
| And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly. |
| As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi. |
| Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. |
| But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times. |
| But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership. |
| But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough. |
| But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. |
| But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity. |
| But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country. |
| Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know. |
| Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation. |
| Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. |
| I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government. |
| I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. |
| I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people. |
| I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people. |
| In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself. |
| It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. |
| It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq. |
| It's got the hallmark of al-Qaida and Zarqawi all over it - two independent attacks within four minutes of one another widely separated using suicide bombers. |
| Militarily we are not in any danger of losing. We can't be defeated militarily based on what the enemy currently throws against us. |
| Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable. |
| Of course to Americans the term outsiders means outside Iraq. But to an Iraqi it means someone not from this local area. |
| Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process. |
| Our forces will not be on the sidelines. |
| Our troops will do what they need to do to include stepping in between warring factions if that's what's required. |
| So the skills required of our translators, interrogators, and human intelligence operators in Iraq are enormously demanding. |
| So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence. |
| The real target is creating enough chaos in Iraq so that an extremist government can emerge there that would be friendly and conducive to the form of ideology that bin Laden, Zawahiri and Zarqawi believe in. |
| There are a lot of them who are participating but it is a greater challenge for them than it is in any other part of the country because they are heavily intimidated by the ex-forces of Saddam Hussein. |
| Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them. |
| We had expected that there would be more car bombs used in the attacks based on the very broad intelligence tips that we had. |
| We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. |
| We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government. |
| Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. |
| Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. |
| Yet, we believe that that's probably the vigilance of Iraqi security forces and some of our proactive measures the night before probably saved lives. |
| You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. |
| CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. |
| CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent. |
| Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. |
| I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. |
| I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped. |
| I decided that these are not secrets in the sense that once you know what the strategy was you'll be able next time to feed it. |
| I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that. |
| I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. |
| I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent. |
| I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is. |
| I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it. |
| I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different. |
| I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed. |
| I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. |
| I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. |
| I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York. |
| I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. |
| I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. |
| I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. |
| I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. |
| I was retained to fight very hard in New York against turning over the outtakes. And the prosecution dropped its request for the actual outtakes today in the New York courts. So CBS did everything it could to resist. |
| I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. |
| If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. |
| It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. |
| It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this. |
| It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know. |
| It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. |
| It's a competing interest that matters. |
| It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. |
| My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case. |
| No effective appeal to the federal level. Texas law is, as Mr. Gray says, clear. The opinions in the circuit - in the Fifth Circuit where Texas is - are also clear. Unfortunately, CBS was in a position where there was simply no legal recourse at all in the place where this was going on. |
| No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win. |
| One of my disappointments in looking at this issue is that not enough people are just stepping back and saying, "look, it's important that everybody have the right to speak their mind even if we think the wrong side is winning as a result of it." |
| So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. |
| The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have. |
| The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. |
| The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again. |
| The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? |
| There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important. |
| This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. |
| Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. |
| When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory. |
| A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. |
| Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. |
| Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. |
| Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. |
| Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. |
| I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. |
| I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. |
| Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. |
| The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. |
| The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. |
| The future comes one day at a time. |
| The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. |
| The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office. |
| The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. |
| The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. |
| Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. |
| Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. |
| We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. |
| A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. |
| Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. |
| Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. |
| I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. |
| It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. |
| Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. |
| Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. |
| Success produces success, just as money produces money. |
| There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. |
| We live on the leash of our senses. |
| A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. |
| And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. |
| I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. |
| If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. |
| Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. |
| Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. |
| Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. |
| Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. |
| The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. |
| The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. |
| The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. |
| There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. |
| To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. |
| Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. |
| I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. |
| Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. |
| The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. |
| There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had publishing companies, trying to buy my songs. |
| Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. |
| I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. |
| If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. |
| Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. |
| We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. |
| A good photograph is knowing where to stand. |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. |
| A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. |
| A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. |
| Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him. |
| Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. |
| I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. |
| I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation. |
| I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! |
| In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. |
| In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things. It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators. |
| In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. |
| It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. |
| It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. |
| Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. |
| Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. |
| Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. |
| Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. |
| Notebook. No photographer should be without one! |
| Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. |
| Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. |
| Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me? |
| Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. |
| Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. |
| The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. |
| There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. |
| There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. |
| There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. |
| There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. |
| There's nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. |
| These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. |
| To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. |
| Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. |
| We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. |
| When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. |
| When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. |
| Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. |
| You don't take a photograph, you make it. |
| A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
| Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. |
| Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. |
| Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |
| For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. |
| He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. |
| He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. |
| He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it. |
| He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each. |
| His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library. |
| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. |
| I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. |
| I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. |
| I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? |
| I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. |
| If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandonded this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. |
| If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. |
| If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. |
| In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. |
| Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? |
| It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. |
| It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. |
| It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. |
| Life is wasted on the living. |
| Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. |
| Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of. |
| One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. |
| Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. |
| That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. |
| The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. |
| The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. |
| The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. |
| The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |
| The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. |
| The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. |
| The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. |
| The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. |
| There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. |
| Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. |
| Time is bunk. |
| To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. |
| We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! |
| We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. |
| You live and learn. At any rate, you live. |
| Christmas is over and Business is Business. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| The best you get is an even break. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| Too much truth is uncouth. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other. |
| Franklin P. Adams |
| A friend in power is a friend lost. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| All experience is an arch, to build upon. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Friends are born, not made. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Intimates are predestined. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Morality is a private and costly luxury. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The proper study of mankind is woman. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| They know enough who know how to learn. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! |
| Henry B. Adams |
| Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. |
| Henry B. Adams |
| A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. |
| If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. |
| If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. |
| Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. |
| Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does. |
| A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. |
| Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. |
| All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. |
| Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense. |
| As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. |
| Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. |
| Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. |
| Fear is the foundation of most governments. |
| Genius is sorrow's child. |
| Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. |
| Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. |
| I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. |
| I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. |
| I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. |
| I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. |
| If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? |
| In politics the middle way is none at all. |
| Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. |
| Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. |
| My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. |
| Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. |
| Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. |
| Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. |
| Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. |
| Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. |
| The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. |
| The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. |
| The happiness of society is the end of government. |
| The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. |
| The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. |
| There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. |
| There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. |
| Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. |
| When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. |
| While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. |
| Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'' |
| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. |
| Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. |
| I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. |
| If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? |
| If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. |
| In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon. |
| In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. |
| Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. |
| Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. |
| Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. |
| The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. |
| The only risk of failure is promotion. |
| We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. |
| You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. |
| He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. |
| How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! |
| It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. |
| Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. |
| The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. |
| The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. |
| All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. |
| Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. |
| America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. |
| Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. |
| Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. |
| To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. |
| Where annual elections end where slavery begins. |
| Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. |
| The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. |
| The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent. |
| The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. |
| Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. |
| You've only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis. |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. |
| Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. |
| I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. |
| I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star. |
| I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again. |
| I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. |
| I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. |
| I'm not completely vegan, I will accept tiny amounts of butter and I normally scrape off cheese when it's on top of pasta or something ... I completely stopped eating dead creatures in 1989. |
| Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental. |
| I do not think that the effect of good environment, of fine buildings, of pleasant homes, upon the character, temperament, will, disposition, and energy of the people sufficiently dawns upon the average citizen. |
| If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens. |
| Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen. |
| So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men. |
| Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. |
| Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical. |
| We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. |
| A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. |
| After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. |
| Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. |
| California was sunk in the mud, with water up to her main deck. Oklahoma had capsized. West Virginia was also sunk, with her deck awash. Arizona was blasted into bits. Her main mast and bridge were bent forward. |
| Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. |
| Everybody knew that I could type pretty well. |
| However, during those months the airmen and ship crews of the U.S. Navy learned the lessons we needed to win the Battle of Midway. |
| I also served on the staffs of Rear Adm. DeWitt C. Ramsay and Rear Adm. Frederick C. Sherman aboard the carriers Saratoga and Bunker Hill. |
| I finally returned to the States in the spring of 1944 and finished out my service at the Sub Chaser Training Center in Miami, Fla., in October 1945. |
| I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. |
| I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. |
| I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. |
| I was on watch in the communications office on December 7. Messages came in about 6:30 a.m. concerning unidentified submarines in the outer area of Pearl Harbor. |
| If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. |
| In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. |
| It was very fortunate that our three Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers - Enterprise, Saratoga and Lexington - missed the Pearl Harbor attack. |
| Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. |
| My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches. |
| My battle station was to operate one of the three shell hoists for the after 8-inch gun turret. |
| My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. |
| My wife and I traveled to Hawaii in 1974, and we went to the Arizona Memorial. It was a chilling experience thinking about Frank and other boot-camp buddies who were on the ship. |
| On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. |
| Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. |
| The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. |
| The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. |
| The search for the Jap fleet continued for four days until we returned to Pearl Harbor on Thursday, December 11. |
| There were a number of Japanese freighters tied up in San Francisco Bay. I was told that these ships were being quarantined. |
| We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. |
| We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. |
| We were taught self-defense, small-arms shooting, first aid, seamanship, personal hygiene and health, firefighting, discipline and how to properly pack a sea bag. Believe me, these things would be part of reality later on. |
| When I graduated from high school in Dayton, Texas, in May 1941, there were no jobs. |
| You could tell that America was gearing up for war. |
| A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. |
| A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. |
| A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. |
| A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. |
| A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. |
| A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. |
| A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. |
| Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. |
| An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. |
| Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. |
| Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. |
| Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. |
| Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner. |
| Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. |
| Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. |
| He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. |
| I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. |
| I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'' |
| I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. |
| I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. |
| If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. |
| Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. |
| Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! |
| It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. |
| It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. |
| Jesters do often prove prophets. |
| Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. |
| Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. |
| Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. |
| Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. |
| Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. |
| Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. |
| Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. |
| Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. |
| No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. |
| Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. |
| Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. |
| One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. |
| Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. |
| Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. |
| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. |
| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. |
| See in what peace a Christian can die. |
| Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. |
| Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. |
| That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? |
| The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. |
| The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. |
| The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. |
| The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. |
| The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. |
| The post of honour is a private station. |
| The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. |
| The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. |
| The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. |
| The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. |
| The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. |
| Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. |
| There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. |
| There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch. |
| There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. |
| They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. |
| Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. |
| To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. |
| To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. |
| To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. |
| To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. |
| True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. |
| ''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.'' |
| What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. |
| What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. |
| What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. |
| When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. |
| When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier! |
| With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. |
| Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. |
| A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. |
| A good folly is worth what you pay for it. |
| A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. |
| After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. |
| Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry. |
| Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. |
| For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. |
| If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. |
| In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. |
| It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. |
| Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. |
| She was short on intellect, but long on shape. |
| The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. |
| An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. |
| History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. |
| In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. |
| Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. |
| Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. |
| The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. |
| The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror. |
| Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. |
| But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. |
| I believe in angels, so it's simple. |
| I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. |
| I do not want to work to correspond to an image. |
| I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. |
| I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. |
| I live with all antennas out. |
| I think that we all carry the divine within us. |
| I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself. |
| I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. |
| I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. |
| I've suffered too much to hide my feelings. |
| If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today. |
| In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. |
| Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years. |
| My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits. |
| Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. |
| One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true. |
| One can be emptied out and be filled up. |
| One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. |
| One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time. |
| Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. |
| Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow. |
| That passion cuts everything else, it blocks all, it's what psychologists call unhealthy. It's what one calls total alienation. |
| There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. |
| There has already been the karmic work : that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. |
| There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other. |
| To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish. |
| To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention. |
| Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. |
| What beauty in childhood, what purity, what openness before one lets oneself be killed and cruelty recloses all. |
| You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high. |
| You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret. |
| A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. |
| Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. |
| It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. |
| It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. |
| Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. |
| The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. |
| The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. |
| The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex. |
| The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. |
| There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. |
| There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. |
| There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. |
| To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. |
| To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. |
| To be human means to feel inferior. |
| War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. |
| War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. |
| All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| All love is sexual love. The mythology of love shows that this is an ancient and popular view of the matter. Think of the character of Venus and her son Cupid, and the arrows of Cupid... cupidity. Love is something to be feared, even dreaded or avoided, as the worst enemy of peace of mind and repose. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Another example of heroic love is the American hero. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Benevolent desires and giving represent the altruistic or unselfish aspect. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Desire is the root of relationships based on utility or pleasure-desire for money, fame, or power, desire for bodily pleasure of one sort or another. In sharp contrast, in relationships based on the excellence of the persons involved, love is fundamental and is the root or source of whatever desire comes to exist. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Education equals the discovery of who we are and what we are to be about as human beings.It is the process whereby a man helps himself or another to become what he can be . . . . the process whereby a man is changed for the better . . . to become a good man, which is something he can be, though perhaps not as readily as being a bad man. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Eliminating physical contacts of all sorts, what sort of union do we mean when we say that love wishes the joy of perfect union? The answer is spiritual union: through cornpassion and sympathy, through sharing and liking the same things, through living a common life, through knowing and understanding each other. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| In every instance of acquisitive desire we are impelled to seek something for ourselves-to get it, consume it, appropriate or possess it in some way. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| It is important to the child to be admired and respected, shown consideration and courtesy-and through these things to be the object of goodwill and well-wishing on the part of its parents. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. |
| MOrtimer J. Adler |
| Love without conversation is impossible. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Loving someone may involve more than goodwill toward them-wishing to benefit them or give to them, but it must involve at least that. If it doesn't, it isn't love at all. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Most of the great stories of love-in novels and plays-are stories of erotic love. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Proper self-love is inseparable from the true love of another. In fact, it is its basis and measure. It is the second precept of charity. The mutuality of love arises from loving in ourselves the same excellence we love in others. Without amour-propre or proper self-respect, true love would be impossible. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The Greeks and Romans had different names for the different kinds of love. The Greeks used the word eros and the Romans used the word amor for the kind of love we call erotic, amorous, or sexual. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The most basic psychological distinction is in the sphere of our mental acts and in our overt behavior and is made by the line that divides the cognitive from the appetitive. Our desires and emotions or passions belong on the appetitive side of that line; our acts of knowing, understanding, and thinking on the cognitive side. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The need for love is one of the deepest needs in human nature, because we are by nature social. But we are social persons, not social animals. Hence we cannot be satisfied, as the gregarious animals are, simply by herding together, simply by being useful to another, or simply by the pleasures of bodily contact. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| There are theories of taxation. So there are theories of love. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| There is no mutuality in ordinary desire: the hungry man wants to eat the food, but the food does not reciprocate-it doesn't want to be eaten. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| To avoid being drawn into the meshes of love is not so hard a the toils, to issue out and break through the strong bonds of Venus. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write - and they do. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| We also say we love our freedom, which is something we certainly need but do not love. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| We love even when our love is not requited. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| When children, or adults as well, say that they love pleasant things to eat or drink, or that they love to do this or that, they think they are saying no more than that they like something, that it pleases them, or that they want it. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| When it becomes necessary to move into the imaginary world without sex, I'll give you notice. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| When sex comes first, and especially if it remains primary, then the love that is based on it will be fickle and short-lived-as changeable as sexual interest is. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| When young children say they love their parents, they do not mean that they have any benevolent impulses toward them. On the contrary, they do need their parents for a variety of the goods they acquisitively desire and that they want their parents to get for them. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
| A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. |
| A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. |
| Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. |
| All morality has been modelled on immorality and to this day has reinstated it at every level. The slave morality is indeed bad: it is still the master morality. |
| All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. |
| An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. |
| And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern. |
| Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. |
| Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. |
| Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. |
| Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. |
| But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. |
| Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. |
| Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. |
| Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. |
| Every undistorted relationship, perhaps indeed the conciliation that is part of organic life itself, is a gift. He who through consequential logic becomes incapable of it, makes himself a thing and freezes. |
| Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. |
| Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain. |
| Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. |
| Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society. But in erecting truth directly amid the general untruth, it perverts the former into the latter. |
| Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. |
| Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. |
| For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. |
| Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. |
| Genuine things are those to which commodities and other means of exchange can be reduced, particularly gold. But like gold, genuineness, abstracted as the proportion of fine metal, becomes a fetish. |
| Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. |
| He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. |
| He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. |
| He who integrates is lost. |
| He who matures early lives in anticipation. |
| He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy. The only relation of consciousness to happiness is gratitude: in which lies its incomparable dignity. |
| He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. |
| History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. |
| Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. |
| If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. |
| If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. |
| In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. |
| In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. |
| In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. |
| In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. |
| In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. |
| In the clock's over-loud ticking we hear the mockery of light-years for the span of our existence. |
| In the end the tough guys are the truely effeminate ones, who need the weaklings as their victims in order not to admit that they are like them. |
| In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. |
| In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream. |
| Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. |
| Intelligence is a moral category. |
| It is not man's lapse into luxurious indolence that is to be feared, but the savage spread of the social under the mask of universal nature, the collective as a blind fury of activity. |
| Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. |
| Life has become the ideology of its own absence. |
| Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. |
| Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. |
| Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. |
| Metaphysical categories are not merely an ideology concealing the social system; at the same time they express its nature, the truth about, and in their changes are precipitated those in its most central experiences. |
| Mind arose out of existence, as an organ for keeping alive. In reflecting existence, however, it becomes at the same time something else. The existent negates itself as thought upon itself. Such negation is mind's element. |
| Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. |
| No emancipation without that of society. |
| No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit. |
| None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. |
| Normality is death. |
| Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. |
| Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. |
| Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. |
| People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress. |
| Perhaps the true society will grow tired of development and, out of freedom, leave possibilities unused, instead of storming under a confused compulsion to the conquest of strange stars. |
| Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. |
| Psychology repeats in the case of properties what was done to property. It expropriates the individual by allocating him its happiness. |
| Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. |
| Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment. |
| Rather, knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presuppositions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly-founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience. |
| Society is integral even before it undergoes totalitarian ule. Its organization also embraces those at war with it by co-ordinating their consciousness to its own. |
| Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. |
| Taste is the ability to keep in balance the contradiction in art between the made and the apparent not-having-become; true works of art, however, never at one with taste, are those which push this contradiction to the extreme, and realize themselves in their resultant downfall. |
| Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. |
| That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality. |
| The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. |
| The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good old days. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physical demythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, roofless wandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right to walk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. |
| The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself. |
| The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. |
| The decay of giving is morrored in the distressing invention of gift-article, based on the assumption that one does not know what to give because one really does not want to. |
| The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. |
| The division of the world into important and unimportant matters, which has always served to neutralize the key phenomena of social injustice as mere exceptions, should be followed up to the point where it is convicted of its own untruth. The division which makes everything objects must itself become an object of thought, instead of guiding it. |
| The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion. |
| The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong. |
| The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. |
| The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. |
| The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice. |
| The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. |
| The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic. |
| The ideology of cultural conservatism which sees enlightenment and art as simple antitheses is false, among other reasons, in overlooking the moment of enlightenment in the genesis of beauty. Enlightenment does not merely dissolve all the qualities that beauty adheres to, but posits the quality of beauty in the first place. |
| The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. |
| The intellectuals themselves are already so heavily committed to what is endorsed in their isolated sphere, that they no longer desire anything that does not carry the highbrow tag. |
| The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. |
| The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. |
| The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. |
| The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. |
| The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations. |
| The only decent marriage would be one allowing each partner to lead an independent life, in which, instead of a fusion derived from an enforced community of economic interest, both freely accepted mutual responsibility. |
| The only philosophy which can be responsibly practised in face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. |
| The overbearing matter-of-factness which sacrifices the subject to the ascertainment of the truth, rejects at once truth and objectivity. |
| The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. |
| The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. |
| The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. |
| The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. |
| The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. |
| The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. |
| The whole is the false. |
| The world is systematized horror, but therefore it is to do the world too much honour to think of it entirely as a system; for its unifying principle is division, and it reconciles by asserting unimpaired the irreconcilability of the general and the particular. |
| There is no love that is not an echo. |
| There is some reason to fear that the involvement of non-Western peoples in the conflicts of industrial society, long overdue in itself, will be less to the benefit of the liberated peoples than to that of rationally improved production and communications, and a modestly raised standard of living. |
| They are down to earth like their zoological forbears, before they got up on their hind-legs. |
| Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. |
| Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. |
| To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet. |
| To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. |
| Today it is seen as arrogant, alien and improper to engage in private activity without any evident ulterior motive. Not to be 'after' something is almost suspect. |
| Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. |
| True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. |
| Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come. |
| Up to our days a man's membership of the upper or lower classes has been crudely determined by whether or not he accepted money. At times false pride became conscious criticism. |
| We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are forced at every step into actions and words, into calculations that are by humane standards barbaric, and even by the dubious values of good society, tactless. |
| What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness. |
| Whatever the intellectual does, is wrong. He experiences drastically and vitally the ignominious choice that late capitalism secretly presents to all its dependants: to become one more grown-up, or to remain a child. |
| When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. |
| Without hope, the idea of truth would be scarcely even thinkable, and it is the cardinal untruth, having recognized existence to be bad, to present it as truth simply because it has been recognized. |
| Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. |
| Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. |
| And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. |
| Call no man happy till he is dead. |
| Death is softer by far than tyranny. |
| Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new. |
| God loves to help him who strives to help himself. |
| He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. |
| He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. |
| I know how men in exile feed on dreams. |
| I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. |
| I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. |
| In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. |
| It is always in season for old men to learn. |
| It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. |
| It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. |
| It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. |
| It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. |
| Memory is the mother of all wisdom. |
| The man whose authority is recent is always stern. |
| The wisest of the wise may err. |
| There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. |
| There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. |
| Time brings all things to pass. |
| To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. |
| When a man's willing and eager the god's join in. |
| When a match has equal partners then I fear not. |
| When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. |
| Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? |
| Wisdom comes alone through suffering. |
| A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. |
| A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. |
| A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. |
| Adventure is worthwhile. |
| Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. |
| After all is said and done, more is said than done. |
| Any excuse will serve a tyrant. |
| Appearances are often deceiving. |
| Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. |
| Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. |
| Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. |
| Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. |
| Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. |
| Example is the best precept. |
| He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. |
| If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs. |
| It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. |
| It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. |
| It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. |
| No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. |
| Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. |
| Plodding wins the race. |
| The gods help them that help themselves. |
| United we stand, divided we fall. |
| We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. |
| We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. |
| I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol. |
| I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.' |
| I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremeties as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies. |
| I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity. |
| I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with Gwyneth that's really valuable. |
| I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. |
| If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call. |
| Kevin is my homosexual crush. If I were gay, the first guy I would sleep with is Kevin Smith. The second one would be Leo DiCaprio - but only for the long hair he had in The Man in the Iron Mask. |
| Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out! |
| Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage. |
| Matt's so metro. He wears perfume a lot of the time. He won't go out without three different moisturisers that he has to put on. |
| My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. |
| Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating. |
| Sometimes it's Britney Spears and sometimes it's Carrie Fisher. I can't tell if I've got a Lolita complex or an Oedipus complex. |
| There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom. |
| There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. |
| Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. |
| Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President. |
| You [Maria Shriver] are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longest time. I'm hitting on you because you're husband is on the other side of the room. |
| A friend - I was living with Matt Damon at the time - went in to audition for To Die For. When he met Gus, he recommended me and my brother. Because the story was about Pam Smart and set in New England, and we knew those kinds of kids and high schools and the whole accent and style. |
| After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning. |
| But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. |
| Candle Cafe in New York City is far and away the best vegan restaurant I have ever been to. The best restaurant. Period. |
| Columbia has this contemporary civilization program - western philosophy and political thought. The professor I keep in touch with recommended Anton Mesmer. |
| Directors will have a different idea than I have. It will rarely be a perfect match. |
| For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. |
| I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movie. Because most of the time I just hate myself. |
| I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. |
| I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me. |
| I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies. |
| I have a very bad relationship with mice. |
| I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. |
| I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, delicious cats. I love the way cats look at me. |
| I have had many, many cats. We seem to connect well. I had a snake when I was a boy. It was given to me on my birthday. |
| I have no pets now. |
| I haven't seen the movie yet - maybe I'm terrible, so I shouldn't really speak to it. |
| I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no. |
| I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs. |
| I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense. |
| I love it: The push and pull, the constant renegotiating of morals, ethics, what to do, how to live... All of us stuck here together trying to sort it all out. It's fun. It can be, anyway. |
| I make out with Christina Ricci... many times. But no real love scenes. I'm dying to. |
| I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts. |
| I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there and he walked out. I knew they were going to yell or something, but then they all just dropped down and died on the ground. Like 400 girls just simultaneously fell on the ground and died. |
| I tell people I'm studying Ebonics. |
| I think if I gave my dad a five-minute rundown on the advantages of veganism, I could convert him without too much trouble. I'll do it next time I see him. Maybe. I'm not much into the converting business, though. |
| I tricked myself into doing this movie. |
| I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy and wheat products easier, but it's kind of limiting. There are lots of great ways to prepare meatless dishes without simulating meat. |
| I'm not that smart. |
| I'm tired of playing the brat. |
| If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny? |
| In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them. |
| It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up. |
| My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. |
| My girlfriend openly shouts at people. She won't hesitate to berate someone at the top of her lungs no matter where she is. It makes me feel like a mealyworm. |
| My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger. |
| My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we sit down at a table to eat, I don't hesitate to tell her how gross eating meat seems just as often as she nags me about my driving when we are in a car together. |
| People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn't recognize them from whatever success they've had. |
| People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week. |
| Since I left school, I've been working on my music career. I would love to be a musician... I wish I could just sit around and play music for myself, but I can't. I just don't have the skills... the skills to pay the bills. |
| The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. |
| The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie. |
| The last CDs I got were Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, Wyclef, Barry White. I went to the Free Tibet concert. Radiohead, Tribe Called Quest, and the Beastie Boys were the best. They changed from mocking rap to being trendsetters. |
| The thing about Interview is that it's very flattering. I guess that's all most magazines are. They take the new, up-and-coming star and make them seem like they possess whatever qualities are popular... regardless of whether they have them or not. |
| There were many incidents that influenced me over the course of my life. I mean, how does one first learn about human rights? It's constantly evolving, and if there was some big-bang-like event, I can't remember what it was. |
| They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good. |
| Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? |
| When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression. |
| When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good. |
| When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys. |
| Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy? |
| You sleep with people all the time that you hate. |
| A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
| Britney and I show a little tummy and it's like, 'Oh My God.' But N'Sync or Backstreet Boys will do repeated pelvic thrusts to an audience of pre-pubescent girls and nobody says anything! |
| I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run. |
| I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing. |
| I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. |
| I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it. |
| I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be. |
| I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. |
| I'm not just another bimbo. |
| I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God. |
| It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself... The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives...For that I give thanks. |
| It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. |
| It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite. |
| My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires. |
| My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise. |
| Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. |
| So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? |
| The roughest road often leads to the top. |
| The schedule is crazy - it's all suitcases and hotel rooms and you just go nonstop. It's a crazy lifestyle, it really is. |
| Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. |
| A decision has to be made next December exactly when the final stages of negotiation between Romania, Bulgaria and the Commission are presently going on. |
| A number of points about this - I don't disagree with reform to try to help the caller from Cape Town and to help agriculture produced in the developing world. |
| Although no country's the same or no hostility's the same, no division is the same, a conflict resolution has many things that are similar. And I think the success of the agreement in Northern Ireland in terms of conflict resolution has many parallels that can be used elsewhere. |
| And all the time we're trying to keep that it is a nation - it is a group of nation states working together. So what are the ground rules? |
| And obviously since many countries have not found it possible from the very start on the 1st May to be able to allow people from countries that are enlarging means that they're not going to allow in Russians. |
| And the Irish people have coped I think with this very, very well in what is an enormous change for us in terms of what's happened for the last 150 years. |
| As long as we have a position - I won't move until you move - and won't do this until you do that - you'll never get anywhere. |
| Before you could be as competitive as you liked but you'd nowhere to trade your goods and services. |
| But a decade ago or so we had one on the Maastricht Treaty. It was about how high finance in Europe was going to work, it was extremely complex - how do you explain that to the man and woman in the street? |
| But in many other areas there's not and I know there's quite a divergence of views on this. I do think the educational bodies within Europe have to try to agree on their own standards authority. |
| But many people in several European countries, and large numbers of Russian people, are coming in, they're coming in on working visas. |
| But our view on citizenship and our views certainly on people coming to work here, which is the question, has been a very open one and a very tolerant one. |
| But the effect of the vote was that enlargement was held up. So we had to go back and change the context obviously to do with the neutrality issue, which was the biggest issue in the Irish campaign. |
| But then you have, like in Nice, when we passed the Nice, we passed the Amsterdam, you pass that treaty and that becomes part of your legal base and we have the Court of Justice which regularly arbitrates on a law. |
| But they've strong support from the United States, they've strong support from many other countries in Europe and it's going to be hard to say no. |
| But we were seeing a situation where people were coming from elsewhere to abuse what was the position which we could not allow to continue. |
| But we're continuing - in the presidency - we've worked extremely hard to have a very fair and balanced view. |
| But what happened in the second campaign was that far more people took an interest in the campaign - trade unions acted for it, civic society got involved, employers got involved - they did not want to see Ireland reject enlargement. |
| Can you imagine the effect of that? Proportionately we've the highest number of Nigerians when we entered the Community coming to Ireland. So it's been a huge change for us. |
| Every day practically I meet somebody from the region, some political leader from the region, trying to do this and we'll keep our focus on this. So I wouldn't accept at all that we're in any way. |
| Every decade of the census in Ireland the population dropped. It has only been in the last decade or so, slightly more than now, that we've seen an increase in population. |
| I accept people would say from the developing world that it's too slow but I think there is a lot happening. |
| I actually think the constitution is a far easier one to have it on because the constitution is fairly clear what is it about. It's a constitution that is simplifying, streamlining the rules of procedure, stating the competence of Europe. |
| I do believe that anyone looking at it and following it, it only takes a reasonable knowledge in public administration and most people do - most people would see that this is a good document. |
| I don't claim any credit for that but I think the convention did a very good job, I think Valery Giscard D'Estaing and his group and the various people who've worked on it have produced a very good convention report, a very good constitution. |
| I don't have any fears about that and I've said this to the enlarged countries that I think they will find their experiences as one of exchange, of education, of sharing their views with others and I think that's a very positive thing. |
| I don't think any of these things are major obstacles. I think they'll get there. Time to be decided in December but I don't think there's any doubt about it. |
| I have met both the EC and WC of Jewish groups and indeed they've been very thankful for what we've been doing here and not only here, up until recently we had I think and all parties had a Jewish member of parliament, even though from a country that wouldn't have a huge population. |
| I hope people are more and more aware of that and we have to help them in their countries and we have to help them to become more sophisticated at farming but that means they need a market for their produce. There's a lot being done in this area. |
| I hope that somewhere during this year that we can succeed in doing that, the people of Northern Ireland deserve it, they want it. |
| I know George Bush well, we work with him very well. We worked with President Clinton before him very well and we've worked with presidents of both Democrat and Republic persuasions over the years. |
| I mean we all understand now the conflicts and the differences we have and we all in our own countries I think are working to embrace different cultures, different religions and I think the Muslim population is enormous already within the European Community. |
| I mean what is it all about? Enlargement is to allow people the opportunity to have voice in Europe. I think Ireland is a good example of this - we've four million people, I sit on the same table as Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, where I can put my point of view as a small country. |
| I think a decision will be made that they will join. What period of negotiation I would say would be more a lengthier period than perhaps Turkey would want. |
| I think again in the movement of people, a country like that - and it's been our experience - free movement of finance and goods great historical culture and great tourism product in terms of not only good weather but also extremely historical connections. |
| I think has to be clear because it's very disappointing for somebody if they feel that they have a masters in their country or doctorate in their country so that they're eminently qualified in their own country and are told that the standards or whatever isn't there. |
| I think in a large community it will probably take time. But they will have to set standards and set guidelines so people know exactly whether their qualification is going to be accepted. |
| I think people are opening their minds to seeing that it is better to engage, it is better to try to work together rather than have divisive policies. And while it is a change and it would be a cultural shock in more terms than one. |
| I think Prime Minister Erdogan and his foreign minister - Minister Gul - they are working very, very hard to get to this position and I think they will be happy to get an agreement that negotiations start. |
| I think racism more generally as people, I don't think it's a big problem in Ireland but I'm very conscious that you can't be complacent about it. |
| I think the collective spirit that the union brings in cultural issues and dealing with different laws and trying to pool it, is a good thing. |
| I think the countries are trying very, very hard to comply with the regulations. |
| I think the enlargement process as it's happened through the years from the original six, right through - we joined, in Ireland, 30 years ago but we'd seen many extensions since, this is the biggest single one bringing it, as you said at the outset, to an enormous block and powerful block. |
| I think the European Community is a very good body, I think it's a very fair body, I think it's a collective body, a very good governance, good democracy. I don't think there's a fear for anyone. |
| I think the European constitution is a far easier one for people to explain, to argue and debate and for people to get some passion about. |
| I think the interesting point on qualifications and standardisation of qualifications and recognition of qualifications - I know in the area of medicine and nurses and pharmaceutical, physiotherapy - tending to be in the medical area - there's been a lot of debate about this. |
| I think the Irish have been over history tended to be very pro-Israel. I think in recent years they have not been very happy with what they've seen - what the Palestinian authority has been subjected to. |
| I think the main benefits of a constitution for people is just the workability of how the Union operates. |
| I think the other part of the question - if somebody rejects it, do you put it back again? Well Ireland was in that position after Nice. |
| I think the pooling of sovereignty, the opening up of markets, the opening up of views is actually an enormously positive thing. |
| I think the Turkey situation is going to generate far more debate and far more controversy for many, many reasons. Its size. |
| I think the way forward is that we can look at the totality of the outstanding issues, whoever's agenda they are, and together say we're going to implement the entire agenda together and everybody moves on together. |
| I think there are times that a debate and a referendum are good, there are other times it's just too complex. |
| I think they'll do very well in the Union and they're already in a financially healthy position. |
| I think this is a good time because I think the constitution is something that people will have an interest - you're understood - these are the charter's fundamental rights. It deals with competences; it is definitely simplifying procedures. |
| I think what we have to do is to try to say listen we have to stop those things that are wrong, we have to look at those things that are positive. |
| I think what we're doing in overseas development aid, which he acknowledges, many European countries, and Ireland included, are trying to up our contribution to help in the development into the free market, that is a good thing. |
| I think within a community the standards should in all professions, as I say in many of them there's not an issue, but I know in teaching and particularly in language teaching there are different views and different standards. |
| I'm a bit disappointed that so many people have closed up on their barriers, that's why we have been very anxious to keep our position. |
| I'm not raising an issue about the date by just saying that decision has to be made at the end of the year but I don't see any major obstacles to their membership, over the remainder of this decade certainly. |
| I've been deeply involved with those negotiations, not only during the Irish presidency but of last year as well, very much following what's happening. |
| I've said at the outset, different countries have their own constitutional provision. Some countries have no constitution so people have to make their own decision, otherwise that would be an interference. |
| If Edgaras comes under what I've stated 1st May he can come here without a visa, with restriction, his qualifications I think not only within Europe but we have now people working here from Singapore, from Malaysia and their qualifications are accepted. |
| In fact on the first vote in Ireland, and perhaps what the caller was referring to, we had a lot of outside money - outside of Ireland - that was put into Ireland on the 'no' campaign from anonymous people and that certainly wasn't a good position either. |
| In fact the truth of it was - I was finance minister then - it was hard enough for us to explain it to each other. |
| In my local hospital, which is one of the biggest hospitals in the country, we've now 29 nationalities. |
| In our case employment has been strong and that has worked very well for us. |
| In our case it was the opposite - we opened up new strengths - I mean things like Riverdance are now on the world stage where it would have only been in parts of Ireland at one time. Irish writers have opened up to new markets. |
| In some of our counties, in some of our areas, of Ireland we only have in recent years an increase in population. So for us now to have immigration from Eastern Europe, from the United States - many Irish people returning. |
| It is a sharing and pooling of sovereignty, it allows people to enhance, I think, their own position and collectively work on all kinds of issues whether it is trade, whether it is agriculture, whether it is education. And I think that is a very powerful issue. |
| It is inevitably slow on these issues, but it will happen. |
| It was actually the financial mechanism, it was the Maastricht referendum. In Nice we would have stopped enlargement. |
| It was the right to claim Irish citizenship regardless of your fidelity or contact or solidarity or connection with the country in any form. |
| It will be a debate in Parliament, a debate in parliamentary committees and then it is up to the people who join in the campaign and who puts resources into the campaign. |
| It will be the first major Muslim country. I think that could be a good thing. |
| It's in the next round that Ireland will become a net contributor. |
| It's not that we look forward to that but it is a sign of the success of what we have achieved. And obviously it's only right that having done well and having got help that we share that back into countries that are now joining and I think that shows real solidarity. |
| Let's be clear it is very difficult, we must continue to work with the countries in the Middle East to try to find an acceptable way forward. |
| Malta met the criteria far quicker than most and their negotiating position was very strong. Their government had to fight a very tough and hard campaign which they won and subsequently went on to win the election. I think they are in a good position. |
| Malta's - what they don't have in their natural resources I think they make up in tourism and they make up in other areas. |
| Malta's always been associated with Europe, always close to Europe. |
| Many people in Europe would complain - the element of their taxes and goes to subsidies - but we have to look after that. |
| Most countries, including Ireland, will implement the new system fully from the 1st January. And of course there are many countries would argue that we need more reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy. |
| My foreign minister has been to Israel, he's been to the Middle East. I've had the Palestinian Prime Minister and foreign minister here. |
| Northern Ireland's position doesn't change or for a UK citizen but for anyone coming from anywhere else in the UK would still, if the baby was born in the island of Ireland, be an Irish citizen. |
| Now to make that happen in the north, it needs people working from different communities. It means Republicans dealing with Unionists and that is a big move. We almost got there a few times but because paramilitarism hadn't stopped, it brought down the institutions. |
| Now what we are endeavouring to do is we know what the outstanding issues are, we know that we could argue forever about the rights and the wrongs. |
| Now you have a market economy of 450 million people after the 1st May where you can trade your goods and services if you're competitive enough. But at least your competitive ability is something that is really in your own population. |
| Obviously the context of that in terms of the population would change dramatically if Turkey were members. |
| Obviously there are differences to be completed. But in the end it is - perhaps I think at the outset, somebody said that anyone in a second level college anywhere in Europe should be able to pick it up and totally understand it - that might be pressing a bit far. |
| Obviously we hold a right, if there's a major problem, to change that position. It is our view that there will not be. And obviously if people are coming to work they will only stay if there is work and if there is opportunities. |
| Obviously, Europe in the first case and the Common Agricultural Policy, has to look after its own citizens but there's a large cost to that. |
| Of course people have the right to demonstrate and hopefully it is all peacefully. But we're dealing with a European agenda and it is our role to do it and it would be a gross insult for Irish people not to honour that invitation and of course he will receive a very good welcome in Ireland. |
| On the other side of it, we do have a moral obligation and also for economic coherence in the world and under the GATT round - an obligation to try to help the developing world. |
| One of the big fears that we had in this country, and I know that a number of the smaller countries that are now in this present phase of enlargement is, would you lose your cultural identity, would you lose the cultural things - the song and dance and music and writing that people have? |
| Other countries do as well, so it's up to everybody and every country under their own constitution provision and many countries have a situation where parliament delegated that responsibility - in our case the law has always been that you have a referendum. |
| People have been moving around Europe - in the early centuries, in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth centuries Irish monks and Irish educationalists were moving around Europe. |
| People join because they want to join, nobody is coerced into joining. It is based around freedom and solidarity of human rights, good governance. |
| People understand European issues far better because if you've had a campaign, obviously the issues have been debated and problems like this debated in the media, people have been canvassed by political activists about it and so there's a greater understanding and an affinity to it. |
| Quite frankly it wasn't a procedure that I liked very much because regardless of the argument if there was no good argument against the 'no' side or it could have been the 'yes' side, had to think up some spurious arguments and equally put that to the people. |
| So it has allowed us to develop, to grow and expand. It doesn't mean we've eliminated every problem in society, you never will. But it has certainly changed the whole spirit and the whole wealth of the country and the quality of life. |
| So you cannot give a commitment that you would not go back, I think, one country can't hold up everything, you have to consider your position. |
| That is standard negotiation but we have to find resolutions to it. |
| That's why we have constitutional amendments when you have a treaty so that you take on board the treaty. |
| The administration have been very helpful to us - President Bush has in Northern Ireland - he's continued on the policies of the previous administration. And we're dealing with EU issues. It is an honour that he comes to our country. |
| The charter of fundamental rights - what rights does a citizen of Europe have. And putting those together in a readable document that can be read by anybody who is not a constitutional lawyer. |
| The educational council have been working on this and doing this but it is an important area. |
| The EU law cannot override what is in somebody's constitution and particularly I cannot have any say where they have not competences and of course they have not got competence everywhere. |
| The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an attack on the democratic process and cannot be justified by any political cause. |
| The Union is complicated, complicated obviously because it has different frameworks, it has different institutions, it has a parliament, it has a commission, it has member states, in some sense it's intergovernmental. |
| Then it opens up, I think, what the questioner's saying - will the opportunities of movement apply then? - Yes they will. Will the opportunities that are open to everybody else apply to them? - Yes they will. |
| There are a lot of pluses but I think that a community and a country like Turkey that will come into the community, it brings different cultures. |
| There are people who are associated with political groupings still involved in paramilitarism, not near as much, we're thankful for what's been achieved. But as long as it happens it poisons the democratic system. |
| There is a Russian Summit later on this year, which I'll co-chair, where they're looking for equal access, they have not got that. |
| There were a few hundred people involved in that - parliamentarians, elected parliamentarians, officials, governments - working together through all the rules that have been there since the Treaty of Rome to bring forward a constitution that set out clearly what it is that Europe wants to do. |
| There's no restrictions insofar as you're not going to democratically stop people from wanting to put in money, which I think is what he would like me to do, which I won't. |
| They are making progress, they have to, everybody has to follow the same system, they have to comply with the same regulations and they have to comply with the various criteria. |
| They do not want to be ruled from London. They want to rule their own system in those areas that they have again the powers to do it and I think we all have to help them. And Prime Minister Tony Blair and I are very committed to trying to deliver that for them. |
| They've brought in huge justice and home affairs reforms. There are doubts about some of the issues about whether the reforms will be fully implemented but we can understand that - I think it takes time for these things to happen. |
| Unfortunately there still is conflict and there still is a lot of hostility and there still is breaches of what would be the norm of civilised society elsewhere. Thankfully we do not have the level of killing and bombing and mayhem that we had for 30 years. We still have a job to do. |
| W e did change the referendum procedure where both sides were put under state money. |
| We are very much basing the bait around multilateralism, where we all must work together and get the United Nations back centrally involved. |
| We had a huge number of deaths as we now see in the Middle East. And people have to work together and we never would have sorted it out militarily, we had to try and find a new accommodation. And while we're not there yet at least we don't have the difficulties that are there. |
| We had a procedure that a referendum commission had to equally put the arguments for and against. |
| We had an abuse of our constitution where people were coming to Ireland, having a baby, some of them leaving immediately and then claiming EU citizenship in other countries. |
| We had Irish colleges all over France and Germany hundreds of years ago. Other nationalists have been moving around. I think the concept of people working together is as old as anything you want to visualise. |
| We had negative growth most of the time and there were difficult times when we joined Europe, times of coping with the changes. |
| We have coped well with this. You have to keep some control. |
| We have institutions, we have a system, people have to pledge by rules and as in any democracy then you have to live by those rules. |
| We have just completed, in the Irish presidency, a very radical reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and the whole mechanism of how farmers in Europe will be paid from next January. |
| We have now experienced in the last number of years an increasing number of Eastern Europeans coming to Ireland - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia - in large numbers, we've an enormous amount of Polish workers now in many areas - financial services, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, in agriculture. |
| We now have in the United States I think they've 60,000 Chinese students in the United States at the moment, in Ireland we've 38,000. So we're a very small country. |
| We took support of the United Nations throughout the period while we were on the Security Council and in a period of all the negotiations pre the war we would have liked a clear UN mandate before any action took place, that didn't happen. |
| We're a country that's very good friends in very good relationships with the United States and our census say that there's 44 million Irish in the United States and they've always been very friendly to us in all our hours of need and we've had many over our history. |
| We're the presidency of the European Union, we would show the same respect to anybody, of any political persuasion. |
| We've been using our presidency to try to develop and build and unite again from some of the hostilities and some of the difficult moments we had of last year. |
| We've had - everything's treaty based, the competences of who does what, the role of the European Court of Justice. It is I think, to the ordinary person, difficult and I think. |
| We've now, I think, in the last six years stopped the violence. We've a new generation growing up now who are not living in violence. |
| Well just in a matter of days we have Poland coming in and many other countries coming in with a huge amount of poor farmers who badly are hoping and looking forward to having subsidies to help them to cope with the changes of the market economy in Europe. |
| Well the simple answer to that is that the EU only has competence where the EU has competence. If it's a law or a constitution provision that is just for the nation that doesn't change. |
| Well there's no doubt about that - people have a right to demonstrate. But George Bush is coming here as the President of the United States, we don't decide who the President of the United States is at any time. |
| Well we always have referendums in Ireland every time there's a constitution change, so it's something we're very familiar with. |
| Well we don't have military meetings in Ireland. We do allow American troops to use Shannon, we have always - since we joined the United Nations - we've allowed troops to refuel from Vietnam when they were going to Eastern Europe. |
| Well you know the historical question in Ireland and her position was that for 150 years, in the time of the great famine in Ireland, our emigration was the issue. |
| What are its objectives, what are its aims, what is the treaty base of these, who is responsible for what - we call it competencies - that's what it means, who's responsible for what - and setting them out clearly. |
| What the intergovernmental conference has been doing, what's the convention was doing, which was - first of all I think the convention was enormous. |
| What we're now stating if somebody is in here for three of the four years before a child is born then they can get citizenship. |
| When we joined the European Union we were less than 60% of the GDP of the European Union. I think today we're something like 115% of it. We've had emigration for every year that we ever had. |
| When you have more cultures and more religions and some people who obviously are not very tolerant and want to find arguments and say that you're taking our jobs, you're taking our houses and exaggerate things. |
| While we're militarily neutral in every sense - closing off a facility which we always gave to a friendly country when all the other countries in Europe that were taking an opposing view also gave facilities would have been an extreme view and one we would not do against a friendly country. |
| Yes they're having some difficulties trying to achieve as much as they can as quickly as they can. By the way some of the 10 that joined now have had similar difficulties. |
| Yes we had really a very open position on citizenship's rights, for the simple reason it didn't arise very much because there was nobody actually coming in. |
| You can't have it both ways, you can maybe for a while but you can't be a democrat and having a paramilitary organisation and that's the difficulty. |
| You have to work extremely hard in education programmes to explain and to try to get people to settle in and to assist them. |
| You know we were at a stage where we had trouble every day, we had bombs every day, it was on the world news most days, unfortunately we recall that. |
| America was free to sever its ties with Iran, but it remains Iran's decision to re-establish relations with America. |
| For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there. |
| For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. |
| Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide. |
| Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature. |
| Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide. |
| Iranians possess delicate characteristics. They introduce their merits, which are extremely attractive to whole the world. |
| It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals. |
| Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation. |
| One can not impede scientific progress. |
| Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. |
| Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't. |
| Our nation is today a powerful nation. |
| People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. |
| Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. |
| Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world. |
| The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is in principle based on the establishment of peace and justice worldwide. |
| The Iranian nation for a long period of time has been the architect of civilization and the standard bearer for science, technology, culture, literature, arts, math, medicine, philosophy, astronomy, and the like. |
| The Muslim world should be allowed a chance in the UN Security Council, where certain groups now possess the right to veto. |
| The presence of an Iranian elite, outstanding figures in many parts of the world is a precious asset for the Iranian nation. |
| The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them. |
| The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam. |
| The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world. |
| Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. |
| We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. |
| We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. |
| You can see scientific progress everywhere in the world. |
| Actually, I don't hate cats, I'm just kind of afraid of them. |
| I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. |
| I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! |
| I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. |
| I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show. |
| I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me. |
| It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do. |
| It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. |
| The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. |
| A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease. |
| A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. |
| Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities. |
| I am always telling our federal agencies and contractors that if they bring work to Hawaii, they need to hire Hawaii residents. |
| I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war. |
| I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel. |
| It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy. |
| New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. |
| There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants. |
| Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. |
| And the veil, spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, to hid the feeling heart. |
| Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. |
| He with cowslips pale, primrose and purple lychnis decked the green before my threshold, and my shelving walls with honeysuckle covered. |
| Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. |
| Such and so various are the tastes of men. |
| Than Timolean's arms require, and Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre. |
| The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. |
| This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. |
| Activist judges are trying to institutionalize a lie that marriage is just about big people relationships, but they forget the little people, the whole generation of kids who will struggle with this terrible precedent. |
| America needs to know who our enemies are and what they plan to do. Improving our intelligence capacity is essential to ensuring the safety and well-being of all our citizens. |
| American workers like those at Boeing and its supplier companies aren't asking for a handout, or a leg up. They are asking for a chance at fair competition. |
| Americans were inspired by the courage of Iraq citizens as they defied threats to there own personal safety and overwhelmingly participated in their nation's elections, and we are now seeing how their courage is inspiring change in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region. |
| And that is certainly a new use of the filibuster and something which threatens to shut down our entire confirmation process for the courts. |
| And then secondly, selling the case that that power should be exercised in the case of the Pledge of Allegiance which we finally succeeded in doing with 247 votes - a clear, hammering-strong, majority. |
| As the President said in his Inaugural Address, the people of the world have a desire to live in liberty. |
| By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. |
| By making tax relief permanent, we can stay on that course and avoid slowing our economy just as it is revving up. |
| Cord blood has proven successful in treating 67 diseases including sickle cell disease, leukemia, osteopetrosis and Diamond Blackfan Anemia. |
| Each of those provisions strengthens the FCC's ability to enforce existing decency regulations and protect the airwaves, and thereby ordinary Americans, from offensive material. |
| I commend outgoing Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Powell for showing leadership and for enforcing decency regulations. |
| I have consistently supported tax relief to create a more robust economy and to stimulate long-term economic recovery. |
| I will continue to work in Congress to reign-in the federal judiciary and return it to its constitutional function of applying the law, not legislating from the bench. |
| In light of this mounting problem, it may become necessary to restore the confirmation process by adjusting the rules in the Senate. |
| In recent decades I believe there have been no more stirring or inspiring words to encourage those of us who believe in protecting unborn life than these. |
| In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected. |
| In today's meeting, we see further vindication for the policies of President Bush, which have ended a vicious dictatorship and brought freedom and hope to millions. |
| Instead, this amendment simply defines what marriage is, the union of one man and one woman. |
| It has been brought on us by activist judges who have chosen to ignore the will of the people and instead redefine marriage for all Americans. |
| It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. |
| It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as they choose. |
| It is our responsibility, morally and legally, to stand with Taiwan against Communist aggression and unsound Chinese law. |
| It just seems to me we do not want to destroy the businesses and farms. |
| Just dying should not be a reason for taxes. |
| Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. |
| Now, there are people who want to use public money to destroy embryos, and they talk about this bill as being a good first step. |
| One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants. |
| Raising taxes as the economy begins to take off makes no sense. |
| Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people. |
| So part of my work was just an educational job of bringing congressmen up to speed that we had this power. |
| Sociologists, psychologists, and other experts can give us all sorts of technical explanations, but we all know from experience that kids are best off when they have a mom and a dad. |
| Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996. |
| The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. |
| The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the Mississippi was truly an honor and Americans poured into St. Louis to participate in prayer services, a rally and celebration mass. |
| The Democratic substitute bill would have raised taxes on upper-income earners, the very people who are helping to create jobs through their small- and mid-sized businesses. |
| The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide. |
| The Holy Father spoke not only to the Catholic community, but to men and women of conscience on every continent. Most notable may be his courage in standing for a culture of life, as well as defying communism and standing in solidity with those opposed to that great evil. |
| The real discrimination here is by activist judges who are trying to deny children the advantages of a simple family. |
| The same can be said of partial birth abortion, which is a horribly violent procedure which kills a baby moments before birth. This decision is contemptuous to Congress, which overwhelmingly passed the ban. |
| The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. |
| There is simply no excuse for that crudeness on the public airwaves. |
| They've been legislating from the bench and they've been inventing various broad sweeping powers or inventing policy that they find intuitively in the Constitution which to any clear-minded person is not there at all. |
| This is a major defeat for the enemies of freedom in Iraq and around the world, and sends a message that despite the best efforts of the terrorists, people throughout Iraq are eager to govern themselves and live in liberty. |
| This is a truly historic moment for the people of Iraq and for the entire region as the newly elected Iraqi National assembly meets for the first time. |
| This is not about who is running the media, this is about the question of the shock jocks who have been pushing the moral envelope for all too long and the vulgar and indecent comments that come over the public airwaves. |
| This law would define China and Taiwan as a unified country, and unilaterally change mainland China's legal approach to status of Taiwan. This is an unwelcome and provocative action that would increase, rather than calm, tensions in the region. |
| We do not have to look very far to see the results of family deterioration. |
| We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not be doing that now. |
| We need to help married couples and their families, not penalize them with a higher tax rate. |
| When federal judges arbitrarily choose to dismiss the will of the nation's elected representatives and chief executive, they place themselves above the law they are sworn to uphold. |
| With the increasing use of vulgarity during major award shows and even the Super Bowl half-time show, parents are becoming increasingly outraged. |
| Yet, today, we see what is becoming a constitutional crisis which is completely unprecedented, and that is the use of the filibuster to basically stop the confirmation process both for circuit court and Supreme Court nominations. |
| Are these the Americans? People remain silent and placate the Americans. By God, they only deserve scorn. We slaughtered them yesterday and we will continue to slaughter them. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| God willing, I will provide you with more information. I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in Washington and London have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans! |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| I can assure you that those villains [American's and British] will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| I would like to clarify a simple fact here: How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. Al-Nasiriyah cannot be besieged. Basra cannot be besieged. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| No, I am not scared and neither should you be! |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| One hundred infidels commited suicide as they entered the holy city of Bagdhad. Their tanks will become their tombs. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Our initial assessment is that they will all die. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| The Americans are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds. The battle is veryfierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| These flops are hitting places which are mainly civilian. Their strikes against Baghdad increase proportionally with their failures on the war front. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| These images are not the suburbs of Baghdad. From what I glimpsed, these gardens with rows of palm trees on the side, which you saw in the images, are located in the south of Abu Ghreib, where we have surrounded the Americans and British. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport. The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture to the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries? |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We will welcome them with bullets and shoes. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| What they say about a breakthrough in Najaf is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places... they are trying to crack the buildings by flying low over them. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay. |
| Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf |
| I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss. |
| I'm good at being sarcastic with guys. They don't want the quiet, prissy little things. |
| I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. |
| Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. |
| Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers. |
| My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. |
| There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior. |
| A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth. |
| American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. |
| Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. |
| I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. |
| I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. |
| I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do. |
| Oh, Mother, you go home too early! |
| One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. |
| Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. |
| What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. |
| Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. |
| Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. |
| I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans. |
| I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. |
| I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. |
| If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. |
| Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. |
| My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. |
| Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. |
| Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed. |
| To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. |
| We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism. |
| While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. |
| A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. |
| A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. |
| Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine. |
| Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. |
| One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. |
| Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. |
| Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. |
| Our ideals are our better selves. |
| Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. |
| Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. |
| Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. |
| That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. |
| The less routine the more life. |
| The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. |
| Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. |
| To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. |
| To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. |
| We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. |
| Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. |
| While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. |
| Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. |
| Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. |
| A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. |
| Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. |
| Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. |
| Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. |
| Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are. |
| Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. |
| Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. |
| Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. |
| He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. |
| Housekeeping ain't no joke. |
| I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. |
| I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us. |
| It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. |
| It takes two flints to make a fire. |
| Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. |
| Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! |
| Love is a great beautifier. |
| Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. |
| Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. |
| People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. |
| She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. |
| "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. |
| Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. |
| What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? |
| Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. |
| You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. |
| Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. |
| Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. |
| I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. |
| It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. |
| It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. |
| Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. |
| No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. |
| ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. |
| When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. |
| You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. |
| Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. |
| Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. |
| I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. |
| I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. |
| I'm lucky that SFWA has such a short memory. I was always the Young Turk, the gadfly. Part of the New Wave, although I didn't fit in there either! I spent years, and two histories, putting the so-called Old Guard in their place, and now I'm one of them! |
| It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. |
| Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. |
| Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. |
| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. |
| Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. |
| A man is known by the company his mind keeps. |
| Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. |
| Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. |
| Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. |
| I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. |
| The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. |
| The ocean moans over dead men's bones. |
| They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. |
| A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. |
| Gossip is nature's telephone. |
| Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. |
| No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. |
| The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. |
| An artificial style of dance confected for 18th-century kings evolved into a popular American art form. an astonishing development for what until recently had been considered manna for aesthetes only, the quiche of the performing arts. |
| At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. |
| Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. |
| Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man. |
| Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. |
| I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is. |
| Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. |
| The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. |
| The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent. |
| The mark of a true crush...is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. |
| The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. |
| The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. |
| The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture. |
| Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. |
| What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too. |
| When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper every other dancer in the company was equally suspect. |
| When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband. |
| As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music. |
| Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a little Jerry Lee Lewis when I thought no one was around to correct me. |
| I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now. |
| In Washington, DC, Democrats still stuck in the New Deal are reflexively searching for national solutions to local problems. We Republicans, having found ourselves in charge, have decided it is more blessed to impose our views rather than to liberate America from Washington's views. |
| It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living. |
| Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. |
| September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for. |
| Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win." |
| The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not. |
| This budget is, in my view, a good budget. It does begin to exercise some fiscal discipline, but it is a modest exercise of fiscal discipline. |
| We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. |
| We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do. |
| All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. |
| Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully. |
| The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. |
| The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god. |
| Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress. |
| And New York needs no explanation. I mean, if you come from Sandusky, Ohio or West New York, New Jersey, you have to start explaining. |
| But I didn't know much about directing a movie. |
| But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. |
| I never had a good year. |
| I remember back when I was doing interviews for Rocky and Bullwinkle, there was this one reporter who came in from Argentina, and she'd ask you a question in Spanish, and then in English. |
| I still don't know much about directing a movie. |
| I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy. |
| I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny. |
| The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. |
| The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in. |
| The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny. |
| We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season. |
| Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. |
| You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island. |
| It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below. |
| A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd. |
| Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. |
| The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. |
| The weaker sex, to piety more prone. |
| The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory - death. |
| Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. |
| All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member. |
| But art is not necessarily without controversy. |
| I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. |
| I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. |
| I don't know where art is going to go in the future, so I can't hypothesize about whether I would still want to be at the NEA if it got into any issue of morality. |
| I guess what the president is saying with regard to the private sector is that we want to see more consistent private giving. |
| I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported through not-for-profit theater. |
| I've seen society change so much since the '60s and early '70s, and still we have the endowment and still we have art. |
| If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it. |
| It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. |
| Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. |
| Nazi Germany produced some posters that would certainly rank as artistically meritorious; their political content was anathema to most people. |
| No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. |
| Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. |
| Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art. |
| The endowment has never funded anything completely by itself, except in a few cases. |
| There's a lot of people in any given community - rural, inner-city, or whatever - who have simply no access to the arts. |
| We have only two criteria, really - artistic merit and excellence - keeping in mind, now, the diversity of the American people. |
| Well, in the 1990 reauthorization legislation, there was a phrase that said we do not fund obscenity as defined by a court of law. |
| What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. |
| I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. |
| I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation. |
| I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. |
| Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. |
| Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research. |
| The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used. |
| The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo. |
| There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. |
| To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. |
| We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. |
| We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect. |
| Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. |
| I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. |
| Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. |
| Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. |
| The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. |
| The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. |
| The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. |
| A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. |
| A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. |
| Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. |
| Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. |
| Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. |
| Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. |
| Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. |
| Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. |
| He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. |
| I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. |
| I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. |
| I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. |
| I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round! |
| I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. |
| I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington. |
| I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. |
| I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'' |
| I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. |
| I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. |
| I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. |
| I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. |
| I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. |
| I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. |
| I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. |
| I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. |
| I'm the best. I just haven't played yet. |
| I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them. |
| If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. |
| If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. |
| It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. |
| It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. |
| It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. |
| It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. |
| It's not bragging if you can back it up. |
| It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. |
| Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. |
| Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish. |
| My toughest fight was with my first wife. |
| My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. |
| No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. |
| Old age is just a record of one's whole life. |
| Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. |
| Only the nose knows, Where the nose goes, When the door close. |
| People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing. |
| Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. |
| Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. |
| Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. |
| Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. |
| Superman don't need no seat belt. |
| The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. |
| The man who has no imagination has no wings. |
| The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. |
| There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. |
| There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. |
| To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. |
| Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. |
| We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last. |
| What keeps me going is goals. |
| When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble. |
| When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. |
| A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. |
| Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. |
| Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. |
| Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. |
| Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. |
| Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. |
| The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. |
| We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. |
| It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies. |
| Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. |
| I will be a historical painter. |
| Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species. |
| From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life. |
| I think America is on the right track. |
| I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well. |
| I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood. |
| In 1935, when the Social Security system was created, the Government did not need to prepare for the possibility of a depleted system. |
| In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs. |
| It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay. |
| Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict. |
| The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges. |
| Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. |
| Charles L. Allen |
| The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road. |
| Charles L. Allen |
| Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true. |
| Charles L. Allen |
| When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. |
| Charles L. Allen |
| Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? |
| Charles L. Allen |
| A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. |
| A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. |
| A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch. |
| A vice president in an advertising agency is a "molehill man" who has until 5 PM to make a molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished even before lunch. |
| An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. |
| An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. |
| Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne - sounds like a trunk falling down a flight of stairs. |
| California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. |
| Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. |
| Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. |
| Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut. |
| Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. |
| He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. |
| Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. |
| Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star. |
| I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is. |
| I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. |
| I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. |
| I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. |
| I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. |
| I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. |
| I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. |
| I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal labotomy. |
| I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines. |
| Imitation is the sincerest form of television. |
| It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. |
| Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. |
| Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. |
| Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. |
| Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. |
| Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. |
| The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. |
| The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret. |
| The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. |
| The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. |
| The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. |
| The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. |
| Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. |
| Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. |
| We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. |
| What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement? |
| When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter. |
| You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. |
| All Senators should aspire to be role models, and to the extent that people who have led the American dream, modern-day Horatio Algers stories should be an added plus to all their intellect, capabilities, and experiences. |
| Every day you waste is one you can never make up. |
| Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. |
| I am confident that with the wholesome character of our American people, justice will prevail and liberty will endure. |
| I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness. |
| I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. |
| In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America. |
| It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven. |
| Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. |
| One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. |
| People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. |
| Persevere and get it done. |
| The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. |
| The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. |
| The tougher the job, the greater the reward. |
| We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas. |
| We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. |
| We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue. |
| Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. |
| When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. |
| When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. |
| A man is literally what he thinks. |
| A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. |
| A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. |
| Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. |
| All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. |
| Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. |
| Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. |
| For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? |
| Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. |
| Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love. |
| He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. |
| If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are. |
| In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. |
| It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. |
| Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. |
| Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. |
| Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. |
| Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. |
| No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. |
| No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. |
| Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. |
| The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. |
| The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. |
| The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. |
| The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. |
| To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. |
| To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. |
| To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. |
| Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. |
| Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. |
| You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. |
| You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. |
| Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar. |
| Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots. |
| If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. |
| If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. |
| In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. |
| Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. |
| The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake. |
| Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized. |
| A ''Bay Area Bisexual'' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. |
| A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. |
| And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room. |
| As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. |
| Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. |
| Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. |
| Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak. |
| Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. |
| Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. |
| Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
| Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. |
| He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. |
| His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. |
| How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? |
| I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
| I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. |
| I am two with nature. |
| I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. |
| I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. |
| I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her. |
| I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot. |
| I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib. |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. |
| I failed to make the chess team because of my height. |
| I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. |
| I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. |
| I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! |
| I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. |
| I think being funny is not anyone's first choice. |
| I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. |
| I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. |
| I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.' |
| I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night. |
| I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. |
| I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year... for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. |
| I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. |
| I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. |
| I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member. |
| I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. |
| I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
| I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. |
| I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. |
| I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. |
| If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. |
| If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. |
| If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. |
| If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. |
| If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. |
| If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. |
| In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. |
| In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. |
| In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. |
| Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. |
| Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. |
| It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. |
| It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. |
| It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. |
| It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. |
| It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
| Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. |
| Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. |
| Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. |
| Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. |
| Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. |
| Marriage is the death of hope. |
| Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. |
| More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. |
| More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. |
| Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. |
| My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. |
| My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. |
| Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. |
| Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. |
| Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats. |
| On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . |
| Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. |
| Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. |
| Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. |
| Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing; between 5 it's fantastic. |
| Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman. |
| Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously. |
| Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing. |
| Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. |
| She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. |
| Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. |
| Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. |
| The baby is fine, the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson. |
| The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife-a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. |
| The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. |
| The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. |
| The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. |
| The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. |
| The prison psychiatrist asked me if I thought sex was dirty. I told him only when it's done right. |
| The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. |
| The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. |
| There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. |
| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? |
| Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. |
| Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. |
| To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. |
| Tradition is the illusion of permanance. |
| What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. |
| What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? |
| When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. |
| When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. |
| Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen. |
| Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? |
| Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage. |
| I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game. |
| I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans. |
| I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. |
| If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it. |
| St. Louis is baseball all american style. Not like Philly, not like New York, not like anywhere else. In St. Louis the fans care about the game. Here they talk strategy, the hit-and-run, the squeeze play, the defensive alignment; the fans didn't care about off-field controversies. |
| You gotta be careful with your body. Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down. |
| Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. |
| Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. |
| Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. |
| Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything. |
| My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. |
| Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. |
| While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. |
| Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. |
| Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. |
| A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. |
| If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. |
| I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. |
| I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them. |
| In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. |
| The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. |
| The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward. |
| We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there. |
| What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential? |
| When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help. |
| I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight. |
| I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results. |
| My device was setup in my backyard and the other one math instructor Raymond Crilley was using in Iowa City. |
| Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. |
| These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. |
| We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. |
| A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity. |
| Beginning drivers seem to make a lot of jerky movements with the wheel. Actually they're making smooth movements to very short horizons. |
| Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts you'll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier. |
| 'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. |
| I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end. |
| If you want to catch fish, and really enjoy the sport, you will maintain your lures and line in some organized fashion. The best at it will always have their tackle ready. |
| It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative. |
| 'Land on Mars' as a project still comes down to something like 'Call Fred about the Mars budget proposal' that can be accomplished as soon and as easily as any other activity in our inventory of work at hand. |
| Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game. |
| My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard. |
| Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work. |
| So in order to achieve clarity and be fully and positively engaged in what you're doing, you must (1) know the goal or outcome you're intending and (2) decide and take the next physical move to propel you in that direction. |
| Sometimes the greatest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the decks. |
| The next time you want to hires someone and are evaluating performance and skill sets, look at the person's ability to get ready fast. When has she been really surprised (positively or negatively)? How long did it take her to integrate it and navigate a positive response? |
| There's a subtle but critical difference between something that is long term and something in the category of 'someday/maybe'. Either a project is an open loop to close, as soon as possible, or it is not. |
| Tricks are for the not-so-smart, not-so-conscious part of us. To a great degree, the highest performing people I know are those who have installed the best tricks in their lives. |
| Well, guess where most of those fires and crises come from? Correct - from secondary things that were ignored because of all the fires and crises. This syndrome does not self-correct, it self-perpetuates. |
| When most people sit down to make a list, they're actually trying to combine all five of the phases we've defined for mastering workflow: collect, process, organize, review and do. |
| Where do most people hang out socially at home? The kitchen. No more maids, no more servants. Today, most of us live another lifestyle entirely, in which we're all in it together, and that's the fun. |
| You don't have time to do any project, because you actually can't do a project - you can only take action steps. |
| Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes. |
| Your power is proportional to your ability to relax. |
| Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. |
| Hospitals in early modern Europe were charitable institutions, designed to provide care and shelter to the sick poor. |
| It (mercury) could be taken internally, for example: one eighteenth-century recipe called for mixing the liquid metal with hot chocolate, though the author cautioned against this exotic beverage because he felt that the "chocolate" was too dangerous. |
| Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. |
| Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. |
| Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. |
| Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine. |
| Sexual morality was becoming stricter, and prostitutes were usually condemned far more savagely than the men who used their services. |
| Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity. |
| Some cast the blame on supernatural powers - the planets, the stars, God, or even witches. Galenists claimed that the pox came from corrupted air, or even, like lovesickness, from an excess of black bile. |
| The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. |
| The public was appalled by this scourge. Physicians too, von Hutten reported, were so revolted that they would not even touch their patients. |
| This was certainly a logical assumption: soldiers and prostitutes, traditionally associated with sexual license and moral disorder, were among the first victims, and the connection became even closer when people noticed that the disease's first sores often turned up on the genital organs. |
| Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? |
| A man is literally what he thinks. |
| All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. |
| As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. |
| Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. |
| Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. |
| Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. |
| He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. |
| In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. |
| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. |
| The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. |
| To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. |
| We do not attract what we want, but what we are. |
| Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. |
| Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. |
| You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. |
| You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. |
| You cannot travel within and stand still without. |
| A friend of a friend has an aunty who lives in southern Illinois, she's in her 60's, and it's totally conservative middle-America. She has a group of ladies her age that get together every Tuesday to watch Queer Eye. |
| Baking is problematic for me because I usually drink a lot of wine when I cook! |
| Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets. |
| But, probably my favorite food interview was with Mario Batali, because I have never met anybody who was more instantly media savvy and more helpful than he was. |
| For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes. |
| However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. |
| I am much more interested in the process than results. |
| I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles. |
| I first got into food with my mother, just Southern cooking, really bad for you food (just delicious!) because I'm the first Yankee in my family, and everyone else was from the South. |
| I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special. |
| I know that the single guys on the cast (which is everybody but me), hmm, well a lot more people flirt with you when you're on TV. |
| I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen. |
| I mean I want people to enjoy their dinner, but I just love the process so much. |
| I moved into a larger apartment in the Village and I actually have the possibility of having people over for dinner again, so I'm very excited. |
| I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations. |
| I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. |
| I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy. |
| I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it. |
| I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff! |
| If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me. |
| In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. |
| It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef. |
| Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day. |
| My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. |
| My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. |
| No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area. |
| Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal. |
| Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. |
| Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period. |
| Six months ago, I was just a writer for Esquire, typing up in my little garret on the far north side of Chicago, and no one had any idea who I was. |
| That's what I want to do when Queer Eye is over. Just follow Mario Batali around, I'll eat his leftovers or be his royal taster. |
| The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. |
| The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. |
| Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party. |
| We're not out to turn rugged straight guys into weenies who paint their fingernails. |
| Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show. |
| What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff. |
| You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. |
| A director just pushes them a little this way or that way. |
| As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them. |
| As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. |
| But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period. |
| But out of limitations comes creativity. |
| Even when you have a big budget, you can't just shoot everything. |
| Everything has to be well thought out - what do you really need, when can you do with less coverage. |
| I actually did a film called Stompin' at the Savoy,about four women who worked as domestics and were trying to get out of that life and into a better one. |
| I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are in the camera. |
| I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. |
| I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again? |
| I got involved in The Old Settler after my sister, Phylicia Rashad, optioned the play by John Henry Redwood. I read it and felt it spoke so much to me about who Phylicia and I are to each other as real sisters. |
| I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director. |
| I loved that they were real people living in the time of the Harlem Renaissance. The story was rich with culture and character. |
| I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table. |
| I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it. |
| I'm always moving forward. |
| I'm respectful of other artists and I think there is a way to talk to actors to let them know they are making this. It all has to come through them. |
| In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time. |
| In the film world you don't often get much rehearsal time. Only on big-budget films do you have the opportunity to rehearse for a week or two. |
| It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage. |
| It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct. |
| It's rare to find parts where you see two women who relate to each other in that very natural way, with a lot of humor and pathos at the same time. |
| Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully. |
| Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. |
| Phylicia is the more restrained one and I am the one who is known as being more gregarious, loud, and colorful. It was pretty obvious to us who should play what part. |
| That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene. |
| The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget. |
| The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that. |
| The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding what's on the page. |
| The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color to it as we go along. |
| The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. |
| The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio. |
| The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. |
| The screenwriter's role was very instrumental, because it's difficult to take a stage play and adapt it for the screen. |
| The upside is that high-definition is a lot cheaper and a lot faster. |
| Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it. |
| There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work. |
| There was no question about who should play Lou Bessie. Crystal Fox brought to the role something that was really needed. |
| There was too much to absorb. So we had about an 8-day rehearsal, a lot for a movie of this nature. |
| There were some scenes where I took ten takes and there were some where I took one. |
| There's always a certain degree of physical attraction between people and the rest either happens or it doesn't. |
| They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job. |
| Time management is a big part of the director's job. |
| We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day shooting schedule. |
| We remembered how they dressed. Phylicia and I grew up in the South, so we could also relate to that part of the story. |
| You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person? |
| Hopefully in ten to twenty years our society will get to the point where sexual orientation is not as big of deal. I think passage of anti-discrimination laws is important step toward this goal. And I think we'll come back and we'll have another referendum in Maine again, at some point. |
| I think that pulp and paper industry is still one of major industries in this state. You have to place some limits on as far as lumbering practices, and to make sure that there are some basic rules. |
| I think the DLC did very important work getting the party moving again. If the Democrats want to retain their status as the majority party, they needed to refocus their agenda. They couldn't stay limited in Northeastern big cities and expect to survive. |
| I was on two: the National Security Committee, and the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. First, the National Security Committee. If you know the first district in Maine, you know that we really have a district that is defense dependent. I asked to be on the National Security Committee because it related to the district. |
| If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. |
| Kids are cheap to insure, so they can go to the doctors, get the tests they need, and do what they should be doing to maintain their health. It's programs like these I think that we should give more consideration to in Congress. |
| Now, there are solutions to stop the cracking. For instance, down in Florida they pooled all the kids in a particular county and provided health insurance for them. The parents can buy private insurance for them if they wish, and if they need a bit of a subsidy they can get it. So it's a private insurance program covering all kids. And it's cheap. |
| The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. |
| There were also good parts with the budget; mostly we restored funding for K-12 education and won an additional $1.2 billion for 100,000 new teachers in grades 1-3 around the country. So there were a lot of parts that were good, a lot of parts that made no sense, but with so much in there it's hard to decide what to do with it. So I voted for it. |
| They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. |
| At that time, a painting representing Martin Luther King's life drew the attention of a jury for the granting of a subsidy to American mural specialists. I was contacted, but I refused to change my nationality. |
| At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. |
| I am in contact with other artists of the Black Diaspora, who make similar researches in the field of representation-abstraction, as the artist, Hector Charpentier from Martinique, says. |
| I am not an adept of voodoo, but I respect this religion just like the others. It is an important mainstay of our culture. From the beginning I introduced "veves" in my popular paintings to emphasize authenticity while avoiding folklore and demagogy. |
| I did not follow a regular cycle. Concerning painting, Daniel Green and then Hugh Gumpel, who understood that I was in search of something else than simply the academic route, were my teachers. |
| I have always been skeptical about the expression "young artists". Many artists were famous in their twenties. Age is not a factor, an artistic notation. |
| I like children, old people expressive faces, the curves of female nudes, the lines of a breast, the curves of a woman's hip, to paraphrase Aznavour. |
| I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me. |
| I used to draw during my final year of school. When I was studying in the United States, I used to draw during my English classes. My teacher talked about me with one of his colleagues, who was responsible for the Art Section and who lead me to two famous art schools of New York. |
| I will add that, since my younger years, I learned to appreciate Haitian Art with my father, who worked in a building in the "Bicentenaire", where the halls hosted art exhibitions. |
| I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests. |
| If you want to evaluate the new generation, those artists who are now arising, the students, there is certainly a lot of talented young people "in embryo" awaiting favorable conditions to come to light. We need a real open and dynamic School of Art. |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat would not be the genius he presently is. Haitian art is sold at Sotheby's or in Drouault, even if Haitian naive art is treated like a poor relation in books of Art History. |
| My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office. |
| My first paintings were anatomic, monochrome, with close-up characters and spots of colors in the background or they were barely worked out. Then I started to develop structures, superposition to amplify emotion. |
| My most recent paintings are a mixture of realism and futurism, representation and geometrical distortion to reflect movement. |
| My mother stopped painting to become a good spouse. One of my aunts was an artist. The American artist, Kira Markham, and I lived in the same district. |
| People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. |
| Siquieros' Cri in the Museum of Modern Art of New York deeply impressed me. From this day, my life took a turning point, hence the social character of my work. |
| The acknowledgement of Haitian art at the international level is thanks to Haitian naive art. It is our reference. |
| The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion. |
| The magic of creation has always fascinated me. |
| Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation. |
| Without Obin, Hypolite, etc, we would have been known only as the poorest country of the Hemisphere, a dictator's paradise with the only merit to be the first black republic of the world to be independent. |
| A radical minority set out to clip Big Bird's tail feathers and wound up instead with egg on their faces. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Although the scientific community agrees that mercury is a terrible health hazard, we have gaps in our knowledge of where methylmercury is found and how it is affecting humans and other life forms. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Americans and Britons remain determined to defeat the global network of terrorists who seek to destroy our shared democratic values. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| An anxious and increasingly skeptical American public will no longer settle for the same unpersuasive upbeat forecasts and hollow rhetoric. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Being cooped up for long periods also may account for our passion for winter sports, whether we simply watch or throw ourselves into them with abandon. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America! |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Catastrophic medical expenses strike only a small fraction of Americans each year. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Congress has spoken out and acted several times to address this crisis, and I commend this body for its aggressiveness on this issue and for contributing more funds for humanitarian assistance than any other country. However, we have a moral obligation to do more. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| I also plan to introduce legislation that will develop a system to measure and document changes resulting from reductions in mercury emissions. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| If the world has learned anything from the horrific tragedy of Rwanda and all previous genocides, we must not commit the same mistake again. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| In virtually every state, they will be warned that mercury pollution may make the fish they catch dangerous to eat. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Just when it's really getting cold out there, the holidays arrive-the occasion for more celebrations with neighbors, friends and colleagues than at any other time of the year. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Misguided policies have left many areas of our waters befouled and depleted, and our marine industries struggling. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| More than a decade ago, researchers studying the pristine ponds in Acadia National Park found something unexpected: mercury in the fish. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Nationally, coastal watershed counties house over half our population and produce roughly half our gross domestic product. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| One-sixth of American children born each year have more mercury in their blood than the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe for proper neurological development. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Severe weather also caused large losses in Maine's other major crops-blueberries, potatoes and hay. Blueberry growers saw a 25 percent reduction in yield. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| The Energy Efficiency Cornerstone Act provides a wide range of meaningful incentives to encourage greater energy efficiency by government, industry and the consuming public. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Today's lopsided vote is a strong, bipartisan reflection of the high regard the American people have for public broadcasting's quality and fairness. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Up to 15 percent of the trees in Maine's 3,500 acres of apple orchards died and many more were weakened. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| We must invest in America's children to give them the opportunity for success and to strengthen our nation's competitive edge in the global economy. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| While Maine is populated by people who pride themselves on their self-reliance, we are also quick to help a neighbor or even a stranger in need. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| With thousands of miles of coastline and centuries of sea-faring tradition, New England is inextricably linked to the sea-economically, culturally and emotionally. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. |
| Thomas H. Allen |
| A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| 'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Qualifications vary with each incoming Administration, but all should strive for persons with the requisite credentials and competence to serve. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Strictly speaking, there was no 'transition' from the first Clinton Administration to the second. But in the case of the first transition, in 1992, the Clinton team was inattentive to the details of the Transition, and failed to make personnel appointments in a timely manner. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| The Transition Team plans for policy review, prospective policy changes and the insertion of key personnel at the upper levels of government. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. |
| Richard V. Allen |
| A lot of people sell my product. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Besides, anyone hangs with me, they know what to expect, really. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Death is a very important part of life. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Every show could be the last one. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I always think the one I just finished is the best one. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I am in control at all times. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I believe I am the highest power, absolutely. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I do this for me, 'cause I have to. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I don't care if you're a painter, whatever, but for me, this is my way, this is my reality. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I guess the clubs take the chance 'cause we make 'em a lotta money. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I hate everybody. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I think everyone in this country should have to do a year in the hole. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I think what I do is positive, in its own way. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I think you should go out at your peak. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I tried going to a shrink when I was married, and it was just such a joke. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I try to run something in MAXIMUM and Flipside every month, too, they've always been good. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I wasn't waiting around for some trendy thing to happen, I was doing it already. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I'd like to see anyone do what I do for one week. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I'll tell you, my music has always sounded like this. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I'm the real Underground, and they know it, but they don't want you to know about me, so they set the limit. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've always had a P.O. box somewhere, ever since the first band. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've broken all these bones, I've got, like, no teeth left in my head. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've done black masses that worked for me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've got like a waiting list of people who wanna play with me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've had a lot of deals fall through when they hear about some of these arrests and everything, though. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've seen so many bands come and go in the last fifteen years, it's unbelievable. |
| G. G. Allin |
| I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street. |
| G. G. Allin |
| If I had, like, a normal family, maybe I'd be worse! |
| G. G. Allin |
| If someone comes right up and asks me if they can tape it and they say they'll give me a copy or something, that's usually cool, but when I see someone sneaking around with a camera, I'll smash the thing, cause I've had 'em used against me, too. |
| G. G. Allin |
| In '88 I was on three labels at once, but I had control of all the material. |
| G. G. Allin |
| It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Jackson is the largest thing of its kind in the world, I'm pretty sure, it's like, eight or nine stories, and just cage on top of cage, these tiny cells, it's like a human zoo. |
| G. G. Allin |
| My mind is too strong. They'll never break it. |
| G. G. Allin |
| No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable. |
| G. G. Allin |
| No one's ever sued me, no. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Prison is nothing, and I get my respect here, anyway. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Someone has to be the leader, and no one else is doing it. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Something... I got all this anger inside me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Sometimes I don't even have a band, I'll just play to a tape, but it's gonna come out one way or another. |
| G. G. Allin |
| That audience is there for me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| That I'm serious, that I will go to jail, that I will die for what I believe in. |
| G. G. Allin |
| The clubs do the disclaimers, not us, but we sorta recommend it. Enter at your own risk. |
| G. G. Allin |
| The feds wanted me 'cause I wrote to (John) Hinckley anyway, so it just would've been something else. |
| G. G. Allin |
| The Underground is pretty well connected, actually, it's not really that hard to get something to me. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Then you got these bands like GWAR, and people think that's shocking. |
| G. G. Allin |
| They're dying to see us in Europe, too, I know that much, so it should be a banner year. |
| G. G. Allin |
| We did a tour, and I got arrested in Dalton, Georgia, then in Orlando, Florida with our drummer, and then in Houston, Texas. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Well, I don't think what I do is outrageous. |
| G. G. Allin |
| What I do is real, it's war out there. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Whether anyone likes it or hates it or shows up or doesn't, I'd still do it. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Why me, because it's my revenge on this robotic society, because someone has to do it. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Why rock'n'roll, 'cause this is rock'n'roll, this is what it was meant to be. |
| G. G. Allin |
| You are what you are. |
| G. G. Allin |
| Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next. |
| G. G. Allin |
| A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful - then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness. |
| Autumn's the mellow time. |
| I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. |
| If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me. |
| Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. |
| She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away. |
| Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. |
| And I can do the rock clubs if I have to. |
| At the time, I put myself in the same category as Jimi Hendrix - and actually, early on up the ladder I was compared to him. |
| B.B. King's maybe been our savior for a long time, but I'm not sure that he's gone as far as Buddy Guy has to do that. |
| Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. |
| Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. |
| But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. |
| But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? |
| But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch. |
| But my big thing was always the blues. |
| But you know, I still had a dream of being able to go back home and tour. |
| Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday. |
| I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues. |
| I focused on how these people became how they were. |
| I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen. |
| I have a lot of energy I don't waste now, wonderin' and worryin', goin' here and doin' that, tryin' to see what would happen. |
| I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect. |
| I like Chuck Berry, I like Bill Haley, and I like a lot of the country people, too. |
| I loved B.B. and Hubert and Freddy and Muddy. |
| I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not. |
| I paid my dues in the States, I went through all the colleges and the nightclubs. |
| I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that. |
| I want to play in a place people want to hear me. |
| I went from a champion... it became very hard in the beginning, because I gave up everything in the States, to take this chance. |
| I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday. |
| In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized. |
| In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side. |
| It's sad that everybody can't be a success, you know? It's too bad, 'cause there are so many who are just as talented as I am. |
| Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit. |
| So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on. |
| So my thing was to go inside of those people's trips, and do me - just to have something different. |
| The blues always been there with me. As far as I'm concerned, it always will be. |
| The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues. |
| We all went to Chicago - like I went to Paris, like I went to Los Angeles. |
| We fell into the lap of those blues artists - like Little Walter and Freddie King - and we found ourself a little city of love. |
| We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States. |
| Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s. |
| Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do. |
| What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me. |
| When I got to Chicago I had to find my way. |
| A fantasy of mine is to be tempted by the devil with a miraculous machine, a machine that could be hooked up to my brain and instantly produce finished art from the images in my mind. I'm sure it's the devil who'd have such a device, because it would devour the artistic soul, or half of it anyway. |
| Any system named Dewey was all right with us. We looked forward to hearing about the Huey and Louie decimal systems too. |
| As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen. |
| At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. |
| Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. |
| Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting. |
| Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. |
| I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper (or carve it in stone), and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process. |
| I don't make plans. All my life, one artistic impulse has simply led me to another. |
| I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat. |
| I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. |
| Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain Martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door. |
| Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. |
| Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. |
| The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. |
| The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. |
| The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. |
| The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. |
| The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. |
| There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress. |
| A scream queen is an actress who eeks out a living. |
| Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. |
| Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it. |
| Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. |
| Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction. |
| I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart. |
| I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it. |
| If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? |
| Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. |
| Life is like an analogy. |
| Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. |
| No one pays me to be nice. |
| The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself. |
| The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat. |
| The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. |
| The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends. |
| The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. |
| The way to a man's heart is through his chest. |
| There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them. |
| This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow. |
| Violence is the first refuge of the violent. |
| When all else fails, complicate matters. |
| Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in. |
| As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV. |
| As soon as one project is finished i like to go straight on to something else. |
| But I think my heart really lay in doing the Russian project, I was really eager to get back to it and finish it. |
| For me it always comes down to what is a good song and i'm very old fashioned in the way that i like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. |
| I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!! |
| I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates. |
| I love Britney Spears, but i'm afraid I don't like Michelle. |
| I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether i'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example. |
| I think i just have the energy, i'm a bit of an addict in a way. |
| I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. |
| I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger. |
| I think the people that got in the 80s and very early 90s got there just in time cos they're the people that have lasted and been able to experimental and do interesting things. |
| I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well. |
| I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style. |
| I thought Pop Idol was really disappointing and full of freaks and geeks and fatties. |
| I was lucky enough to get a brilliant producer for the album, Andrej Samsonov who is based in St Petersburg, who was the musical arranger and really brought it all together. |
| I'm a bit of a gypsy like that - I like to travel around, I don't feel routed in one place for long and I'm always interested in doing something new whether that's planning my new record or planning my next project. |
| I'm not a big fan of R&B, but I do like that kind of Britney Spears twisted up with arabic samples in and things like that. |
| I'm not one of these people who say the charts is full of rubbish now. |
| I've been through that, so now I guess i'm a workaholic. |
| I've started lyrics but I don't know how i'm producing it yet. |
| If i've got a more pop style record to promote you find yourself pushed towards chat shows and things like that. |
| In the past i've put myself in situations just to inspire me, I do kind of like life. |
| It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album. |
| It's always nice when you have something that is successful or you're able do something that has that exposure. |
| It's hard to get around in the daytime in Moscow, it's total traffic and pollution and it becomes a drudgery so you really have to live at night a lot. |
| Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process. |
| My next record i really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way. |
| Now I just look at myself as an artist, a songwriter, a performer and i DJ every week now in two or three places. |
| Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but i never think about it. |
| Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform. |
| Sometimes you do take your life in your hands going in certain places and it's very unpredictable, but that's thrill of it, the excitement of it all. I do like a little danger in life!!! |
| That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible. |
| That's what I like to do, I like to make songs. |
| The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. |
| The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. |
| There's one every single year, but they just seem to make this one album and go. |
| These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next. |
| We had such a great reaction from the album in different places that were relaunching it coincide with 10 day stint of concerts i'm doing at the Almeida Theatre in Islington at the end of July. |
| We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. |
| A friend, Ted Keeps - an engineer - happened to have a tape of sounds of bullring in Tijuana and overlayed it onto the tape, and we became the Tijuana Brass. |
| Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. |
| And then we started repeating the same places... staying in same hotels. It got a little boring. I needed a change... a chance to get away from it. |
| Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. |
| He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. |
| I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. |
| I didn't know what I wanted at the time, I just knew I needed to get away from it and get an overview of my life. |
| I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. |
| I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. |
| I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. |
| I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. |
| I mean, gee whiz, I'm real lucky to touch so many people's lives. And if I give someone pleasure, it gives me pleasure. |
| I never thought of myself as a trumpet player in the traditional sense: I never played in a big band... I didn't struggle the normal way. |
| I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight. |
| I purposely wanted to go to Mexico City, to be in that environment and to see what it was like recording in another studio. |
| I remember in '66, we had and still hold the record for most albums in top 100: we had 5 in the top 20 at one time. |
| I took about a month long trip through Europe in the early part of '69 and realized didn't have my priority systems straight. |
| I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. |
| I was a record producer and songwriter in the record buisiness and I had the horn. |
| I was obligated to do a bunch of concerts and a television show, but something in my stomach was telling me this wasn't what I wanted to do. |
| I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit. |
| I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million. |
| I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process. |
| If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record. |
| In spite of everything that's happened to me being a musician, playing trumpet provided me with greatest satisfaction. |
| Instrumental music can spread the international language. |
| It was strange because didn't want to deceive anyone... we weren't a band from Mexico; I didn't want to be an imposter or living up to an image people had of me or the group. |
| It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. |
| It's very clean. With tape, you get noise. |
| Latin instruments have always been a part in my music, but I never felt a closeness to music from south of the border. |
| Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. |
| No, I am into great musicians... like to surround myself with them... I like to pad my deck! |
| Now that marketing strategy is such that, outside the packaging might be just beautiful and inside it might be just nothing! |
| Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do. |
| The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. |
| The last few years I've been using co-producers. |
| The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips. |
| The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument. |
| There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial. |
| This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music. |
| We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. |
| We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show. |
| We were like a trial for the digital process, and I found that in that particular timeframe, there were too many problems with it. |
| When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it. |
| With tape, you capture the impact, but you bring in some other elements. Sometimes those elements are good and sometimes, they're not. |
| You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. |
| About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. |
| After working on the effects of acridines on the replication of bacteriophage T4 DNA, I joined Mathew Meselson's laboratory at Harvard University to study a DNA endonuclease involved in the replication and recombination of T4 DNA. |
| At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme. |
| By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. |
| Cech's observation and ours, while still greeted skeptically by some members of the enzymological community, were soon universally accepted and within a few years other catalytic RNAs derived from plant pathogens and the human delta RNA were also found. |
| Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics. |
| Evolution has presented us with contemporary versions of this enzyme that undoubtedly will someday tell us an interesting story of its progression from an RNA to various complexes of RNA and protein. |
| For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. |
| Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis. |
| However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education. |
| I am conscious of two events that sparked my early interest in science, the first being the appearance of the A-bomb. |
| I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. |
| I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. |
| I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. |
| I was fortunate enough to isolate and characterize a precursor tRNA, one of the intermediates in the metabolic pathway leading to the synthesis of mature tRNA. |
| Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. |
| It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. |
| Lee Grodzins supervised my senior thesis in nuclear physics and provided me with a wonderful research experience and with his friendship. |
| My career at Yale followed a standard academic pattern with promotion through the ranks until I became Professor in 1980. |
| My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| My involvement in the discovery of the first catalytic RNA began in innocence during a study of tRNA biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. |
| Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. |
| No sacrifice was too great to forward our education and, fortunately, books and the tradition of study were not unknown in our family. |
| Our colleagues, indeed all citizens everywhere, should have the right to think in a free and open manner, to imagine and discover the previously unimagined and unknown without anticipating that there might be oppressive consequences. |
| The chemical details of catalysis by RNase P remain to be fully worked out although a rough picture of this reaction is now available. |
| The discovery of the first radiochemically pure precursor to a tRNA molecule enabled me to get a job as an assistant professor at Yale University in 1971, a difficult time to get any job at all. |
| The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. |
| The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. |
| This century has already seen too many tyrannies engage in the distortion and destruction of the finest creative impulses of humankind. |
| This result explained why the purification, which had been designed to isolate a proteinaceous complex, was so difficult. It also led to much disbelief in the community of enzymologists. |
| Thus, the pathways leading to the discoveries of RNA catalysis were not as direct as one might imagine from reading about the results in textbooks. |
| We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. |
| We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. |
| We soon suggested that the RNA subunit of RNase P was part of the active center of the enzyme, by analogy to the then current picture of the ribosome. |
| And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. |
| And I really believe good journalism is good business. |
| And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter. |
| And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story. |
| And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me. |
| And yet, the powers that be, the moneymen, have decided to eviscerate us. |
| Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, it's true. |
| Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win. |
| Before my son was born I used to joke about looking for bullet-proof Snugglies and Kevlar diapers. |
| But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars. |
| But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society if we weren't so dependent on what I call those hocus-focus-pocus awful groups who tell us what people are not interested in. |
| But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. |
| For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned? |
| Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. |
| I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by. |
| I am personally thrilled though by the changes at CNN, which no doubt you have all read about. because it means we are responding to the times. |
| I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. |
| I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints. |
| I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century. |
| I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. |
| I still have many years left in me, if I still have a job, but that's what I'll tell my son when he's old enough to torture me with painful questions. |
| I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent. |
| I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. |
| I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying. |
| I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way. |
| If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? |
| If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive. |
| In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. |
| In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. |
| In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. |
| Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children. |
| It is true the Cold War has ended and that our big bosses think that relieves them of the obligation to cover the world. |
| It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear. |
| Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league. |
| More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places. |
| Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen. |
| No matter what the hocus-pocus focus groups tell you, time has proven that all the gimmicks and all the cheap journalism can only carry us so far. |
| Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. |
| Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be. |
| That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now. |
| They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be. |
| U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next. |
| We do it because we're committed, because we're believers. |
| We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news. |
| We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. |
| We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. |
| We thrived as I said on the pioneer spirit of CNN. We adored being the little network that could. |
| We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. |
| We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle. |
| What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference. |
| What we do and say and show really matters. |
| Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable? |
| Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent. |
| A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. |
| Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. |
| Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. |
| An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. |
| Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. |
| Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. |
| Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. |
| Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. |
| Common sense is calculation applied to life. |
| Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. |
| Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. |
| Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. |
| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. |
| Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. |
| Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library. |
| For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. |
| Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. |
| He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. |
| I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. |
| If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. |
| In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. |
| It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. |
| It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. |
| Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. |
| Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. |
| Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring. |
| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. |
| Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! |
| Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. |
| Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. |
| Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude. |
| Order is a great person's need and their true well being. |
| Order is power. |
| Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. |
| Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. |
| Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. |
| Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. |
| Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. |
| Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. |
| So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. |
| Society lives by faith, and develops by science. |
| Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. |
| Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. |
| Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. |
| The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. |
| The best path through life is the highway. |
| The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. |
| The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. |
| The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. |
| The only substance properly so called is the soul. |
| There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. |
| Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. |
| To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. |
| To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. |
| To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. |
| To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. |
| To marry unequally is to suffer equally. |
| To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. |
| True humility is contentment. |
| Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. |
| We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. |
| We only understand that which already within us. |
| What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution. |
| Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity. |
| Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. |
| Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. |
| Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. |
| Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. |
| A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum. |
| Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. |
| He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. |
| His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. |
| I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. |
| I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root. |
| If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. |
| It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. |
| It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunks of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity. |
| No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. |
| Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go. |
| Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. |
| Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. |
| I hire tea by the tea bag. |
| Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. |
| More will mean worse. |
| Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. |
| Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. |
| A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better. |
| As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. |
| I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. |
| The facts of life are very stubborn things. |
| The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. |
| The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. |
| You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. |
| Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it. |
| Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. |
| Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. |
| I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. |
| I moved to LA when I was 21. I felt like a kid in a candy shop. I'd be driving down the road and go 'Mmmmm'... there was a guy and Mmmmm.... there was a guy! |
| I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating. |
| In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. |
| Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. |
| Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. |
| People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. |
| Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. |
| Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. |
| Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be. |
| The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. |
| There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't. |
| What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. |
| When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people? |
| Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power. |
| You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. |
| A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. |
| Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. |
| At places like the Cedar Tavern, the painters were really the center of what you might you call the social scene. |
| At times I might play some kind of folkloric flute, although I didn't play those with the frequency or the skill then as I do now. |
| Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. |
| Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. |
| Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. |
| Gregory Corso began to study the classics while he was in prison and became self-educated through living in the streets. |
| He heard me play with Charles Mingus before we met and knew Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - a lot of the same people I did - all of whom appreciated him as much as I did because he was such a down-home, egalitarian person. |
| I jammed with Monk and Bird and played and recorded with the bands of Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Lionel Hampton, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham and many great players at venues that were often attended by just a handful of people. |
| I just wrote a new piece for the flutist James Galway, Giants of the Night Flute Concerto, which was written in memory of Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac and Dizzy Gillespie. |
| I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. |
| I never knew whether Jack was reading something that he made up on the spot or if it was something of his own. There may be something by Walt Whitman in there, or maybe a fragment of a poem by Hart Crane, or something from Shakespeare, Beowulf or Chaucer. |
| I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era. |
| I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. |
| I would listen very hard to what he was reading, and on the spot create music that the readings gave me ideas about. |
| In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. |
| In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. |
| In Kerouac's case, after one book came out, On the Road, he was hailed as the greatest new novelist since Thomas Wolfe. |
| In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. |
| McLeish considered Corso a genius. |
| One of my first heroes was Leopold Stokowski, the conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1937, when I was six years old, I was taken to hear them, and I fell in love with that whole group of musicians and all the music I heard, including the performance of Peter and the Wolf. |
| So, having been turned down there, we decided to do it at the Brata Art Gallery, where I was known. On occasion they would ask me to play the horn or bring some musicians to play. |
| So, we went to the Brata Gallery and they welcomed us there. |
| That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there. |
| That is something that I was trained to do when playing jazz, always think ahead. |
| That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. |
| That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. |
| The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. |
| The fact that we even did it is a miracle, because we used to do our readings on park benches or in people's apartments, or in the Cafe Figaro or some bar at 3:00 AM - whatever we felt like doing. |
| The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. |
| The other thing is you really have to want to submerge yourself into this situation. |
| The painter Jackson Pollock studied with Benton and was an authority on American Indian sand-painting. |
| The reality is that Brando was a tremendously accomplished classical actor well before he even studied Stanislavski, but because of one role, he was typecast the rest of his life as somebody who was mumbling and fumbling. |
| The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. |
| There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them. |
| They were basically informal get-togethers that were open to anybody who happened to come by and walk in, from a street person to a potential art collector who would hear through the grapevine that artists were having a party. |
| This was 46 years ago, and I played mostly French horn and some piano and percussion. |
| This was the kind of attitude that dogged our time, where they said Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were playing wrong notes, that Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline and Joan Mitchell didn't know how to paint, that they were just hurling paint cans against the wall. |
| We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. |
| We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. |
| What I have tried to do during the course of my lifetime is honor many of the people who influenced and inspired me, and in the process of honoring them it will hopefully create even more interest in their work, as well as being a thank you letter from me for their support when I was very young. |
| When he was reading, I would submerge myself into whatever it was he was reading, and I tried to anticipate what would happen next. |
| When the Actors Studio was beginning to get into its heyday, the Stanislavski Method was tarred and feathered in the same way beatniks were as a result of Marlon Brando's wonderful role of Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar Named Desire. |
| When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. |
| When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. |
| Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice. |
| After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do. |
| Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change. |
| But then in Suite Chic (a collaboration project of hip hop and R&B artist), I did the stuff that I wanted to do and in having the opportunity to do your favorite things makes it easier to continue to do the things that you like, don't you think? |
| During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child. |
| Even in what I eat, for example, my favorite and least favorite foods never change. |
| Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others. |
| Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. |
| Even where music is concerned, my basic love for R&B hasn't changed, but lately I've grown able to listen to rock without resisting. |
| For me, dancing while singing lets me act cool, and hide my shyness, but I'm a bit embarressed singing ballads. |
| For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular. |
| From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance. |
| I began to think more like a mother myself, and to become positive in my work again. |
| I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried. |
| I don't think I did anything special to make myself charismatic for these girls. |
| I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think. |
| I feel like with Suite Chic, I was able to show a lot of different things, and also that I got the closest to the kind of thing I want to be doing. |
| I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well. |
| I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. |
| I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. |
| I just wanted to sing again. |
| I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be. |
| I really like to be able be really bold and put out a different side of myself, thanks to people I trust, I think. |
| I stopped caring what people thought. |
| I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right. |
| I think I was a mirror for what they wanted to look like and how they wanted to feel. |
| I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. |
| I think that I can coomunicate the lyrics most gently with ballads, and ballads are always when my feels are the brightest. |
| I want to sing live, not only R&B, but pop and rock; and I hope these songs will make the album cool. |
| I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role. |
| I write songs now, I plan concerts. |
| I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet. |
| If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it. |
| If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. |
| If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse. |
| In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff. |
| It was a real challenge forcing myself to be consis-tent in not playing up to my fans. |
| It was a shock to see teenage Amuraas. |
| My favorite thing in the world is Zaru-soba, and it has been since my debut. |
| My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. |
| Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. |
| People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was. |
| Rather than asking people to make songs from my image I have inside myself, I wanted different people to bring out many different Amuro Namies. |
| Simply, there are many things I would like to do. |
| So tunes with lower keys are increasing and I'm trying to do it with a different feel that agrees with the current style. |
| Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing. |
| Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles. |
| Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them. |
| When I sing and dance I act really cool, but when I sing a ballad I pretty much go back to being a normal girl while I'm singing, and that's kind of embaressing and I also worry if the audiance will accept me like that that. |
| When I think of my older songs, I can't believe that some of the key were so high! |
| When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think. |
| When I was still in a group, I danced all the time, but since I went solo, I didn't have any promotion videos where I danced at all. |
| When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. |
| Where make-up is concerned, since I dance and work up a sweat, I never like mascara. |
| Yes that's right. I, personally, like rap and hip hop music; doing this is diversing my music but I think up until now it's totally different than what I've done before, I wonder if this is good. |
| I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me. |
| Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most. |
| As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. |
| Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. |
| I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people. |
| I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country. |
| I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow. |
| It is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn't have this and I didn't have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. |
| Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. |
| None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. |
| Prayer begins where human capacity ends. |
| Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating. |
| There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you. |
| You lose a lot of time, hating people. |
| He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. |
| If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. |
| The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless. |
| There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. |
| This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. |
| What price Glory? |
| In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. |
| The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. |
| And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business. |
| I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid. |
| I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out. |
| I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room. |
| I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable? |
| I was not a big drug person. I couldn't smoke pot because it made me so paranoid that I couldn't tell if I had to pee or I was really cold, so I just didn't enjoy it. |
| I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to. |
| In junior high a boy poured water down my shirt and yelled, "Now maybe they'll grow". |
| It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. |
| It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life. |
| My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy. |
| Size does matter. There's a lot of ways to make people feel good, but personally I think it does enhance things. |
| Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. |
| There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. |
| There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life. |
| You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet. |
| Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. |
| I am more spontaneous than my character. |
| I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling. |
| I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again. |
| Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. |
| My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others. |
| People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. |
| So much of this world is based on illusion, temporariness, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real. |
| You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength. |
| Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. |
| Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. |
| Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. |
| When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. |
| A baseball manager is a necessary evil. |
| Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success. |
| Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet. |
| I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets? |
| I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench. |
| I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. |
| I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain. |
| If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing. |
| If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up. |
| If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed. |
| It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them. |
| Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings. |
| My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work. |
| People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. |
| Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut. |
| The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia. |
| The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to. |
| The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. |
| The players make the manager, it's never the other way. |
| They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real. |
| They're loyal Royal all the way. But, they're not tough fans, a player does not have to worry about being insulted there. |
| We're the best team in baseball, but not by much. |
| You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun. |
| Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. |
| I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. |
| I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. |
| That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. |
| A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. |
| I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. |
| If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. |
| In raising the consciousness of the public to the plight of many small, wild cats, the Bengal and some other hybrids can be like a signpost pointing the way to a broad and unselfish commitment to save not only endangered species but those whose fate may also one day become inevitable. |
| Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. |
| Am I good? I think so. |
| Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. |
| I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation. |
| Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up. |
| Well, one never likes to be called uncommercial, because our aim is to be commercial. |
| Because I've done these Dune books, and I'm a big outdoor hiker and mountain climber, I think that you can get along just fine with forests and things. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Dune can be read on so many different levels. I really get different things out of it every time I read it. You can read it as just a plain old space adventure story, people being stranded on a desert planet that has giant sandworms on it, but you can also read it and get politics and economics out of it. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Dune has all the big, epic vastness of the galaxy, with politics, economics, intrigues and wheels within wheels plots. But they don't have any aliens or anything. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I did a total of 54 projects for LucasFilm: I did novels, anthologies, a young adult series co-written with my wife, comics, pop-up books and all kinds of things. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I did some stuff for the X-Files that are directly lifted from my daily work at the lab Lawrence Livermore. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I do a lot of hiking and walking and I carry my tape recorder with me to dictate writing, or I just think and put down notes. I just went out for days, and I couldn't stop talking about creating characters and building the worlds. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I don't think anybody is particularly worried anymore that their Apple Macintosh is going to take over the world. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I felt that since I'm doing the H.G. Wells book and I did Captain Nemo, that it seemed like an obvious thing for me to be doing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It's a fun movie. It's very fast and very sharply edited. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I have a physics and astronomy background. If you have the means to do what I described to do, the physics actually works. I have enough of a science background that it has to at least make sense. I don't have people opening their helmets in space and trying to breathe vacuum for awhile or some of the other bizarre things. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I hired an artist to do a bunch of background work for me. He was the painter and the artist who did a wonderful Star Trek graphic novel that my wife and I wrote called The Gorn Crisis. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I just get too many phone calls during the day. If I'm in the middle of a scene and the phone rings, it really disrupts my concentration. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I multiprocess. I'm hiking and writing at the same time, so it's not like I'm taking a day off. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I never, not for a nanosecond, doubted that I was going to become a writer. I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I always knew that everything else I was doing in my life was leading up to it: every job that I had I was learning something that I would later apply to my writing. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I read comic books and Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton, who was one of my favorite science fiction authors. The first adult novel that I read was H. G. Wells' The Time Machine when I was 8 or 9 years old. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I think one of our manifest destinies is to get people up in space, whether it's a colony on the Moon or on Mars, or just in a practical commercial sense, that you want to build factories in orbit because you can make things there cheaper. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I think that you make time for the things that are important. You don't waste time on things that aren't important. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I wanted my bad guys to be... suave and intelligent. I think Darth Vader is a better villain than the Emperor, because he's conflicted and he's got more personality. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I was 5 years old and that was the point at which I decided that this was the stuff was for me: the giant Martians blasting with their heat rays and dying because the germs killed them at the end. To a 5-year-old, that took the cake. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I was going to send Frank Herbert the first signed copy of my very first book. So I got his home address. The book was then bought by Signet. But by the time that the book was brought out in paperback, nine months later or so, Frank Herbert had died of cancer. I just missed him. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I won't diss the movie, because it brought lots of readers to the original books. But my Star Wars readers knew they liked my writing, and decided to give my Dune books a try. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I'm not convinced that the NASA space program is the best and most efficient way to retool everything. However, I'd rather that they build another space shuttle and that we'd at least have four of them working than just sitting around waiting for some miracle to happen. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I'm not just a successful writer in the science fiction genre, I'm am just the geekiest fan boy in my heart. To think that I can pick up the phone and call Harlan Ellison or that I get letters from Arthur C. Clarke is just about as cool as it gets. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I'm playing amateur psychologist here, but these are very diehard fans and I think there's a little bit of jealousy here. I think they wish they had gotten picked to write Star Wars books. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I've always felt, even when I was a bachelor working full-time and coming home from work at 5:30 at night, that I would take the time to cook myself a couple of chicken breasts and make a salad or something because I work too hard, and I deserve to have a decent meal instead of heating up a pot pie or something like that. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I've been hiking up in the snow in the Sierra Nevadas when I was writing a Star Wars scene where they're on a polar ice cap of another planet. So that's direct and obvious sensory input. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I've been learning all the different aspects of how to juggle multiple plotlines, how to build the worlds and the technologies and the characters, the monsters and everything, and I wanted to write something that was all my own, because my two biggest writing successes in my writing career have been the Dune books and the Star Wars books. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I've climbed all the 14,000 foot peaks here in Colorado and I'm doing another one this coming Saturday. You can get into a sort of fugue state and concentrate without interruption about your scene or your world or your character or whatever you're doing. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| If you started getting Hiltons up in orbit, they would be full every day of the year. Because people would pay to go up there. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| In the book you have a planet where the trees are sentient and this special group of people can communicate with them. But instead of trees walking around like the Ents in The Lord of the Rings, these trees sit there and love to experience other things vicariously, because they have roots; they can't walk around and do things. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Isaac Asimov had computers the size of planets and things like that. Which were great concepts at the time they came out, but when you read them now, they seem a little bit quaint and old-fashioned. Whereas, Frank Herbert, was almost utterly separated from technology. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| It used to be that if somebody was writing a 700-page book, you would give them a couple of years to write it. You really couldn't expect it any faster than that. Now I'm writing a 700-page book in the Seven Suns series and an 800-page book in the Dune series with Brian every year, plus two or three other books. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Jules Verne really and truly was a good friend of Alexander Dumas, he was trying to write for Dumas, but Dumas got into financial troubles and told Verne to go write his own stuff instead. Then Dumas fled France. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Jules Verne's real life is pretty much sanitized for the book. I did lots of research on him and the more I read, the more I started to hate him. He was really a putz. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| My schedule is to get up at 6:30 or 7:00 and I'll usually work out and have breakfast and start writing by, say, 8:30 in the morning. I work non-stop until I have to stop to make supper. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Once I finally sold my first book, at the age of 25-this was after hundreds and hundreds of rejection letters-once I got my foot in the door, it's like they grabbed my foot and dragged the rest of my leg in. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| One of my very favorite things to do is to write bad guys. Because I learned that bad guys never think of themselves as the bad guy. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Star Wars has all the color, the humor, the action, the monsters and lots of aliens, so why not come up with an epic storyline that has all the politics, wheels within wheels stuff from Dune, but all the color and space battles and aliens from Star Wars, and just turn everything loose? |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| The Green Priests are like the tree spirits or the people living out in the forest; you also have another group called the Roamers, who are like the Gypsies. The Ildirans, the old, dying empire that has been around so long that they are kind of on the wane, are like the Elves. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| The one that I make when I'm really trying to impress someone who's coming over is a killer lasagna recipe that's been in my family for five generations. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| The science fiction community is like a small, tightly-knit dysfunctional family. We all either know each other or have mutual friends. So it's not really hard to get in touch with someone. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| The thing that makes something classified in a document is a number after a decimal point on a table on page 43 of a 300-page document because it has something to do with a nuclear cross-section or something like that. There aren't folders full of stuff like secret stealth airplanes that are being built in Area 51 or something like that. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| This forest is like a gigantic library or databank, and they can tap into it to get any information they want. Because all these trees are interconnected. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| This was somewhat of a surprise to me, but a lot of people picked up our books first without ever having read Dune. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Today, we're walking around with Palm Pilots. What if we could just implant the Palm Pilot so we could just access the stuff instantaneously? That's I think. It won't be giant robots standing there with bullwhips. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| We are always going to get stuck on needing oil and it's always going to seem unfair to us that the most valuable resource in the world is buried under this ugly bunch of sand duness out in the middle of countries where the people have cultures and religions that we don't understand. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| We need to have a regular commerce between the surface of the Earth and at least near-Earth orbit from which we can build other things and send them to the Moon or further. It's the stepping stone. You have to have it. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| What gets me about that is that you have people talking about cloning and they are saying things that anybody with eighth-grade science knows that what they're saying is wrong. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| What the Terran Hanseatic League find maddeningly ironic is that these primitive people who talk to trees are the only ones who can communicate instantaneously across large distances. And this is the science being realistic. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| When I was a little boy... I knew I wanted to basically turn a gas giant planet into a small sun to warm up the small moons around it, so people could terraform it. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything? |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| You can still have a very happy and productive and comfortable life if you are in a situation where you are fully cooperating with nature instead of cutting down the rain forest to build condominiums. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| You can't just send cameras up to orbit and that's it. It's the difference between looking at a National Geographic magazine and actually walking around in Morocco. You must have people who are actually there. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| You must develop your own work, become established as an author, before you would ever be asked to work in an established universe. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| You need the romance. It's not a book about romance, certainly. The whole plot is not about the main characters getting into a clinch. You have to have heroic, archetypal characters and when you're following the epic storylines, there has to be the greatest love in the universe, the star-crossed lovers who somehow can't ever get together. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| You need to write something publishable before you need to worry about the mechanics of it. Before you even have written a story, they are worried about how you're going to find someone to sell the movie rights to. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| You research the book, you outline the book, you write the 400-500 page book, you edit the 400-500 page book, then worry about how to get an agent. |
| Kevin J. Anderson |
| But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it. |
| Can I say to you that one of the reasons why we have to involve treasuries in all of this is because you must run an economic eye over a proposed change, changes not just allow them to be subject to the whims of environmental departments and environment ministers who from time to time can be rather driven by ideology. |
| I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs. |
| I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right. |
| I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it. |
| I just say to you that I don't think we ought to be in the business of command and control unless it's necessary, really necessary on the basis of agreed science, essentially you ought to move water around according to where it's going to give you the right balanced proper return. |
| I personally think that is an idea that might very well be worth looking at but again it would need to be properly accountable and I think with treasuries involved it would be, so that you've got balanced assessments, the weighing of social and economic factors as well as purely environmental considerations. |
| I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process. |
| If we get it right, there need not be losers. |
| It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource. |
| Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance. |
| No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it. |
| People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked. |
| That's the reality and now we've got to clean the mess up but we have to do it in a way that doesn't ruin farm communities. |
| They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system. |
| We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. |
| We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there. |
| We really can, if we do this properly, end the angst, end the uncertainty, end the investment drought that's beginning to emerge in some parts of the country because of this and move into a much brighter future. That's what we've got to do. |
| Well I don't know if that's entirely fair but it probably took the drought to get a really good Australian stoush like the argument about drought proofing in Australia to get a national debate well and truly up and it frankly is time, in fact it's pretty much over time that we had that debate. |
| Well I think there's been a need as many have said for national leadership on it and it is difficult given the way constitutional responsibility for land and water lie with the states and some states have managed it well, some have not, that's not really a shot at present state governments I have to say. |
| Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that. |
| Well there's enormous distrust and enormous resentment about change, there hasn't been the agreement on science and on consultation and on transitional arrangements that's been needed to make it all work. That's been the problem but I think we are now starting to make giant breakthroughs. |
| Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas. |
| Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that. |
| A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers? |
| Being on Dr. Phil was great for me! I couldn't believe I was on the show. Can you say nervous! We talked about family, my new book, and discussed the ins & outs of troubling family dynamics. |
| Credit-card debt and day trading-I feel like Michael Corleone in Godfather III, just when I think out, they pull me back in. |
| Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book. |
| I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people. |
| I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time. |
| I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated. |
| I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit. |
| Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that. |
| My mom was a garage sale person, save money. Come on in to the garage sale, you might find a shirt. She'd get in that garage sale and point stuff out to you. There's a good fork for a nickel. Yeah, that's beautiful. It's a little high. If it were three cents I'd snap it up. |
| My new book, THE F WORD, is out and available in Hardcover, Book on Tape, and a Special Collectors Edition signed by me. |
| We all think we're going to get out of debt. |
| We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that. |
| Weight is a glanduar thing, as well as an emotional thing. |
| You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family. |
| As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| I really shouldn't say that I don't like launches. You're really taking an explosion and you're trying to control it. You're trying to harness that energy in a way that will propel you into space. And we're very successful in doing that. But there are a million things that can go wrong. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| I went back to college, picked up a masters degree in physics from Creighton University in Nebraska, and at that point, Isat down and filled out the NASA application and sent it in. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| It looks like the future's really bright. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| My dad was in the Air Force. Being an Air Force brat and living on Air Force bases, I was always around airplanes. So, my interest in aviation and my interest in science were two of the things I really latched on to, and two things that I just couldn't shake as I grew older. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| My early years in the Air Force as a young pilot, flying around the world, having fun with my crewmates and doing what I knew was a very important job-those are highlights I'll never forget. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| Since the day I first joined in ROTC as a young 17-year-old freshman at the University of Washington to today as an astronaut with NASA, it's just been one challenge after another, one great adventure. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| So far, we've been really pleased with what we're seeing. We're exceeding almost all of our expectations, and we're getting some really good science. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| This will be my second spaceflight. And if it's anything like my first flight, it's really going to be exciting. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| When I was in high school, I knew that if I was going to become an astronaut, I was definitely going to have to go to college. I'd been a science fan since I was a young kid. I picked physics because out of all the different scientific fields, I think physics is probably the broadest. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| With the help of all my crewmates, that's where we spend most of our time each day, in the payload bay working on those experiments. |
| Michael P. Anderson |
| Although I've put in my two cents on occasion, at the end of the day CART has always had good people on board and they don't need me to run the series. |
| And I think it's safe to say this is the most competitive racing in the world, and maybe of all-time that we are experiencing right now. |
| And I'm a firm believer that if something is meant to happen, it's meant to happen. |
| And when we go from braking to accelerating to cornering, the G-forces we pull are really demanding on our bodies. We definitely have to be in top shape. |
| Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is. |
| Bryan Herta has been working with CART to build the Stars of Tomorrow karting program and a better feeder system. |
| But, you know, this is a dangerous sport and that will always, until the end of time, there's always going to be a chance of that happening unfortunately. |
| CART has been very progressive and as long as it continues to improve driver safety, I'll feel very comfortable. |
| CART is a very global series. |
| CART is one of the safest racing series in the world. |
| Every win feels great, but there always are some that are going to stick out from others. |
| I can definitely tell you, though, I will not race till I'm 54 years old. |
| I don't know how to explain it, but being a driver and having to be on top and putting your butt on the line every time you're out there is just a different type of pressure than being on the sidelines and giving it to the other guys to get us the result. |
| I don't think it's ever been done where a father's driven for his son, so that's another new one for us. |
| I guess the only thing that I look at are the wins category, because that - that was always my goal when I came in to racing was I just wanted to win as many races as I could. |
| I haven't had the desire to get back in the car which, you know, I think proves that I did make the right decision for myself and so, I'm really looking forward to that side of it. |
| I mean, I'm very happy with the way things did go with my career in so many other ways that I still feel like I've been the most blessed guy in the world. |
| I obviously have opinions, but my job here is to race. |
| I think getting to places like Canada and Mexico are important because they are such great race fans there. |
| I think it's important to have the best drivers. |
| I think our product is the best in the world right now, but because we're divided, we're not getting it out there. |
| I think the good teams are still going to be at the top whether there's testing or not. |
| I think the physical challenge is a little different than NASCAR, where as you said, it's about the fumes and maybe the heat. |
| I think when you're young, you have just so much energy and you're willing to take more chances than normal, things like that. |
| I want to put on the best show possible for the fans. |
| If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down. |
| If you look at the way racing is structured in Europe, they're getting talent at a very early age. |
| In 2001, my sponsors - Motorola and Archipelago - were very keen to get back to Indy because it is still the world's largest one-day sporting event. |
| In Indycars you might have maybe six guys who can win instead of the four in F1. |
| It opened my eyes. You have to look at things rationally and not emotionally. |
| It's good to see CART develop young talent because they are the future of the series. |
| Last year was our first season together and we scored a win in Toronto, but there were some growing pains. That's not unusual for a first-year team. |
| My rookie year in Indycars went really smoothly, but the next year everything went wrong. |
| No, I've never had a desire to race in NASCAR. |
| On the track, fluids are important I actually have a bottle in my car. |
| One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. |
| Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race. |
| Some guys are a little superstitious and stuff like that but I personally don't have any pre-race rituals or carry any lucky talismans. |
| Ten years ago, you had a lot of guys in their 40s still racing, but you haven't have that any more because of the competition, it's just so tough, and these young kids are pretty darned good. |
| The Indy Lights program and the Atlantics have produced some great drivers. |
| The team I ran with in CART opted not to compete at Indianapolis from 1996 through 2000. It was mostly the team's choice, not mine. |
| The worst thing for me would be to live close to the shop in England. |
| Those walls, if you hit them wrong and those fences if you hit them wrong, it's not going to be a good thing. |
| To think that I am one of the older guys out here is pretty crazy, but then again, you've got to look at the way the sport has evolved. |
| Unfortunately, I hate to bring it up, but I think one thing we need to do is get this thing settled between CART and IRL because I think we are definitely split right down the middle right now, especially for the oval audience. |
| We feel the way the rules are with IRL testing, having a fourth car out there is going to hopefully be an advantage. |
| We have so much horsepower in these cars now that I think we've got to start cutting it down a little bit. |
| Well, I'm going to really try to help the team with my experience as much as I can. |
| When I'm at each event, I focus on that event. |
| When I'm at home, I'll run and do the weight programs but not as vigorously as in the offseason. |
| When you get older, you take less chances, but you rely on your experience to make up the difference, you know that a lot of times works for you. |
| When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more. |
| You can't just sit back and rest on your old notes that you had. |
| You have to be very fit to be competitive. |
| You know, I think if we have many more races, we are just going to burn teams out, because these guys right now are burning the candle at both ends just to keep up with the schedule. |
| You think things through a little bit more and I think that I'm much more patient than I was when I first started racing. |
| Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. |
| If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. |
| Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. |
| One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. |
| Sadness is also a kind of defence. |
| Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for. |
| There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. |
| What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. |
| What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up. |
| When I am not desperate, I am worthless. |
| After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. |
| And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs. |
| And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see. |
| But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much. |
| But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. |
| But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist. |
| Even the common gypsy women have a pride and reserve. They stay faithful to one man at a time, no matter what. That is my Carmen. |
| I am very conscious in what I am choosing. Maybe sometimes I put something there and I make a mistake, but it is not because I want to make a mistake. |
| I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. |
| I like the word of someone that takes part, who is a singer in something very important, is to make music together. |
| I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me. |
| I mean a German person would never do it like that, it would be very serious, you know, systematic, but a Spanish person it takes another kind of way. |
| I thought that it would be ridiculous for me to imitate for instance Madame Schwartskopf, it would be ridiculous. |
| In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment. |
| In the opera, a great show and beautiful costumes, and you create a character, and it is also for the public more exciting. |
| It is not like a river, you know, the ambition of being someone very important, to be the only one, this doesn't interest me. |
| Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. |
| Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally. |
| So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career. |
| So it is very seldom to find someone who has the quality of understanding each singer, the quality of each singer. |
| This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music. |
| To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. |
| Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin. |
| When I begin to sing, I realised I am the only one in the family that has something to earn a little money, and so I found myself being a singer. |
| With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much. |
| Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality. |
| A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. |
| Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. |
| I just want to get a Ph.D. in love. |
| If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. |
| In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. |
| Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. |
| Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. |
| Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. |
| Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. |
| Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are. |
| Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. |
| No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. |
| No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. |
| Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. |
| The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship. |
| The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. |
| The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. |
| The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. |
| We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. |
| What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. |
| When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. |
| Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. |
| You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. |
| A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. |
| Achievement brings its own anticlimax. |
| All great achievements require time. |
| All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. |
| Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. |
| As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. |
| At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. |
| Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. |
| Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. |
| Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. |
| Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. |
| Effective action is always unjust. |
| For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. |
| How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! |
| I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. |
| I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories." |
| I believe that every person is born with talent. |
| I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. |
| I find it interresting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed. |
| I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. |
| If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities. |
| If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. |
| If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. |
| If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. |
| If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. |
| If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. |
| It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. |
| Life loves the liver of it. |
| Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.'' |
| Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. |
| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. |
| My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. |
| My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. |
| My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. |
| Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." |
| Nothing will work unless you do. |
| Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. |
| One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. |
| Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. |
| Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. |
| Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. |
| Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. |
| Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. |
| The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. |
| The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. |
| The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. |
| The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. |
| There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. |
| There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. |
| There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. |
| There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. |
| We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. |
| We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. |
| We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. |
| While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. |
| Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. |
| As an actor, you have be up in the morning, so you make your dinner and go to bed. |
| Friends is so successful that, if you make a movie and it's not as big as Friends, then you get people telling you, "How dare you make a movie? Keep your day job, dammit!" |
| I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God. never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass. |
| I always say don't make plans, make options. |
| I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy. |
| I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet. |
| I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies. |
| I don't have any commitment issues in relationships, obviously! |
| I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well. |
| I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am. |
| I was a Duran Duran freak - and freak is the perfect word to describe my behavior during that decade! |
| I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. |
| I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing. |
| If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell. |
| Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day! |
| Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy. |
| Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. |
| That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny. |
| The best smell in the world is that man that you love. |
| The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath! |
| True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily. |
| When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed. |
| You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'. |
| You're damned if you're too thin, and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. It's imposible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we all stop trying. |
| Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation. |
| Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. |
| Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. |
| I came here to show support for all the millions of people in the world who stand to benefit if the Millennium Development Goals are reached, especially the children who will be saved from malaria or Aids, who will grow up healthy, go to school and have the chance to earn their living and enjoy life. |
| I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. |
| If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? |
| Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. |
| It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. |
| Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. |
| More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. |
| National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. |
| Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. |
| The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. |
| The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed. |
| We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. |
| We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. |
| We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face. |
| We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. |
| We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization. |
| An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. |
| Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. |
| Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. |
| Every man thinks god is on his side. |
| Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. |
| God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. |
| Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. |
| It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. |
| Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. |
| Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. |
| Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. |
| Nothing is irreparable in politics. |
| Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life. |
| One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. |
| Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. |
| Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. |
| Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. |
| Saintliness is also a temptation. |
| Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. |
| The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. |
| There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. |
| Things are beautiful if you love them. |
| To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. |
| Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. |
| Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. |
| What you get free costs too much. |
| With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. |
| You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself! |
| In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet. |
| It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. |
| Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed. |
| The sweat - great slithering streams of it - pours down you. It runs down your legs, down the leg that is pedalling the sostenuto pedal, down the other leg. It oozes out all over your chest, flows down the binding around your middle where your full-dress pants soak it up. It flows everywhere, down your arms, down your hands. |
| You become afraid lest too much perspiration will wet your hands too much, make them slide on the black keys, which are too narrow; you are playing at about a hundred miles a minute. But somehow they don't. As long as they don't you know you're all right. You're going good, well-oiled like an engine. Not too much sweat, not too little. |
| You crawl over the onrushing piano passages in slow motion. Your fingers are in ten little steel strait-jackets. |
| Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far. |
| Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. |
| If you are not learning, no one will ever let you down. |
| If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. |
| If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you. |
| Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right. |
| Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. |
| Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere. |
| Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. |
| The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it. |
| The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. |
| The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. |
| We fear the thing we want the most. |
| We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves. |
| When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change. |
| When you blame others, you give up your power to change. |
| You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. |
| Failure is impossible. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| Suffrage is the pivotal right. |
| Susan B. Anthony |
| A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. |
| A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. |
| An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. |
| Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. |
| Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. |
| Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. |
| Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. |
| Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him. |
| Man proposes, woman forecloses. |
| Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. |
| The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. |
| The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. |
| The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. |
| To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. |
| When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. |
| A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. |
| Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. |
| "Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew. |
| I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. |
| Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. |
| The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. |
| To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. |
| A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. |
| A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground. |
| All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. |
| All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. |
| And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind. |
| As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. |
| Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. |
| Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. |
| Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. |
| Beware of the person of one book. |
| By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. |
| Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. |
| Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. |
| Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. |
| Final and perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence... For perfect happiness the intellect needs to reach the very Essence of the First Cause. And thus it will have its perfection through union with God... in which alone man's happiness consists, as stated above. |
| For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us. |
| Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. |
| Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. |
| Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. |
| Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. |
| How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. |
| How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. |
| Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. |
| If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. |
| If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions. |
| If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. |
| If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. |
| In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. |
| In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance. |
| It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. |
| It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. |
| It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. |
| Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. |
| Just as in one man there is one soul and one body, yet many members; even so the Catholic Church is one body, having many members. The soul that quickens this body is the Holy Spirit; and therefore in the Creed after confessing our belief in the Holy Spirit, we are bid to believe in the Holy Catholic Church. |
| Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. |
| Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. |
| Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. |
| Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. |
| Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. |
| Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. |
| Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. |
| Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil. |
| Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. |
| Now among all passions inflicted from without, death holds the first place, just as sexual concupiscences are chief among internal passions. Consequently, when a man conquers death and things directed to death, his is a most perfect victory. |
| Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace. |
| Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. |
| Reason in man is rather like God in the world. |
| Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. |
| Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts. |
| Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. |
| That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. |
| The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. |
| The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. |
| The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead. |
| The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. |
| The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. |
| The things that we love tell us what we are. |
| The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. |
| There are wars where no one marches with a flag, though that does not keep casualties from mounting. Our hearts irrigate this earth. We are fields before each other. |
| There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. |
| There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. |
| This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win. All the world forgiveness of its world of sin. |
| Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. |
| Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. |
| Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. |
| To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. |
| To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them. |
| To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. |
| To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. |
| We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. |
| Well-ordered self-love is right and natural. |
| Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. |
| Wonder is the desire for knowledge. |
| All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| As our country bled... its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| One must be frank to be relevant. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. |
| Corazon C. Aquino |
| I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. |
| In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. |
| Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. |
| Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. |
| Since we cannot defeat Israel in war; we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel. |
| The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. |
| The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. |
| This is my homeland no one can kick me out. |
| We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. |
| Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. |
| Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. |
| Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. |
| I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. |
| Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. |
| Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. |
| O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. |
| Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. |
| There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. |
| We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. |
| A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. |
| I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. |
| I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. |
| I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. |
| I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. |
| Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. |
| Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. |
| Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. |
| My favourite thing is to go where I've never been. |
| Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. |
| Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. |
| Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. |
| The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. |
| The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way. |
| The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. |
| There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be. |
| These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. |
| What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them. |
| When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that. |
| By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. |
| Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. |
| Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. |
| Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. |
| Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. |
| For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. |
| Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. |
| In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. |
| It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. |
| It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. |
| It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent. |
| Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces. |
| Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. |
| No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. |
| No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. |
| Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. |
| Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. |
| Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion. |
| Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. |
| Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. |
| Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. |
| The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object. |
| The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. |
| The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. |
| The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. |
| The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life. |
| The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. |
| The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. |
| The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. |
| The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. |
| The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. |
| The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. |
| The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. |
| There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. |
| This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. |
| To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. |
| To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. |
| Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. |
| Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. |
| War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. |
| We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. |
| What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. |
| Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. |
| Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. |
| But that he wrought so high the specious tale, as manifested plainly 'twas a lie. |
| For rarely man escapes his destiny. |
| From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. |
| Man proposes, and God disposes. |
| Nature made him, and then broke the mold. |
| Still more plain the Tutor, the grave man, nicknamed Adam, White-tied, clerical, silent, with antique square-cut waistcoat, Formal, unchanged, of black cloth, but with sense and feeling beneath it. |
| Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. |
| They think they have God Almighty by the toe. |
| We soon believe the things we would believe. |
| When the devil grows old he turns hermit. |
| Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. |
| By words the mind is winged. |
| Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. |
| Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. |
| The wise learn many things from their enemies. |
| These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. |
| Under every stone lurks a politician. |
| Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. |
| Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. |
| A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. |
| A true friend is one soul in two bodies. |
| A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. |
| All men by nature desire to know. |
| All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. |
| All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. |
| Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. |
| As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out. |
| At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. |
| Bad men are full of repentance. |
| Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. |
| Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. |
| Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. |
| Change in all things is sweet. |
| Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. |
| Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. |
| Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. |
| Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. |
| Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. |
| Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. |
| Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. |
| Education is the best provision for old age. |
| Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. |
| For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. |
| Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. |
| Friendship is essentially a partnership. |
| Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. |
| Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
| He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. |
| Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully. |
| Hope is a waking dream. |
| Hope is the dream of a waking man. |
| I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. |
| I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. |
| If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. |
| If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. |
| In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. |
| In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. |
| In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. |
| In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. |
| It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. |
| It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. |
| It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. |
| It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
| It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. |
| Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. |
| Man is by nature a political animal. |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. |
| Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. |
| Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. |
| Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. |
| Most people would rather give than get affection. |
| Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. |
| My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. |
| Nature does nothing uselessly. |
| No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. |
| No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. |
| No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. |
| No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. |
| Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. |
| Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. |
| Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. |
| Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. |
| Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. |
| Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. |
| Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. |
| Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone. |
| Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. |
| That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. |
| The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. |
| The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. |
| The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. |
| The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. |
| The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. |
| The end of labor is to gain leisure. |
| The gods too are fond of a joke. |
| The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. |
| The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. |
| The law is reason, free from passion. |
| The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. |
| The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. |
| The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide. |
| The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. |
| The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. |
| The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. |
| The secret to humor is surprise. |
| The soul never thinks without a picture. |
| The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. |
| The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. |
| The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. |
| The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. |
| There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. |
| There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. |
| Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. |
| This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. |
| Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. |
| Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. |
| Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. |
| To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. |
| To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.'' |
| Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions. |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |
| We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. |
| We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. |
| We make war that we may live in peace. |
| We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. |
| We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. |
| Well begun is half done. |
| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. |
| What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. |
| What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. |
| Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. |
| Wit is educated insolence. |
| Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |
| You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. |
| Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. |
| A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon. |
| I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are. |
| I do remember that TV Guide did a quote that the three of us can be compared to Earth, Wind and Fire. Michele was the Earth, I was the Wind and Donna was the Fire. I think that really captured it. |
| I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. |
| I have this need to play a funny, zany character after years of playing Valene. |
| I love the fleur-de-lis because I'm tied to it emotionally. |
| I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use. |
| I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated. |
| I never ever ran with anyone on Knots. |
| I played Valene for 14, 15 years; remember I was also on Dallas for 2 years as well so I was getting really tired of playing her for that long. |
| I still want to do a comedy series. |
| I think if you saw Valene today she'd be much more accomplished as a writer and would be very successful overall. |
| I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God. |
| I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much. |
| It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back. |
| Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. |
| Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years. |
| Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in my life. |
| My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. |
| Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind. |
| Running is my church. |
| So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap. |
| The spine or the beginning of the series was Gary and Val, coming over from Dallas, so maybe there should have been more Lucy. |
| They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. |
| When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer. |
| When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day. |
| When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing. |
| When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes. |
| With a view of Pike's Peak to the left and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the right, we really did have an idyllic upbringing in a post-card setting.. |
| You'd never imagine how many people listen to Howard Stern that you'd never expect. |
| You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. |
| Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the season, that you just don't get on an hour show. |
| "ER" is clearly a phenomenon that really takes place once in a decade, if you're lucky. It was clear that we couldn't compete with that. |
| First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued. |
| H20's not just a horror movie. I mean, if somebody called up and asked, "What do you want to do?" I might not necessarily have said, "I've got to do a horror movie." To be completely frank, I'm not sitting around fielding offers all day long for movies. |
| I can't imagine Steve Miner didn't have a lot to say about it, because we had worked together on an episode of "Chicago Hope" and had a really good level of communication with each other. I think he probably was an advocate for me. |
| I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. |
| I don't go to see a movie because it's a Western, or because it's a comedy. I go to see it because I've heard great things about it, or I know the people involved, to the extent that I know they do good movies and I'm interested in seeing their work. That pretty much covers all genres. |
| I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. |
| I have rarely been treated as well, during or after a project and they bent over backwards to accommodate my schedule because I was shooting "Chicago Hope" simultaneously. |
| I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there. |
| I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation. |
| I think it helped that it's clearly Jamie's film, so nobody was bucking for center stage, because we all knew who had center stage. My experience has been, when there is a strong and generous leader, at the core of any kind of project, it creates a healthier environment. |
| I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody. |
| I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. |
| I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama. |
| I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive. |
| It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama. |
| It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent. |
| It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence. |
| On my side of things, I was sent a script and asked if I wanted to do it. So, whatever decision making went into it prior to that, I'm not privy to. |
| People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. |
| People have said, "It's pretty surprising that YOU would do a horror movie," or "We don't think of you as a guy who'd be in a horror movie," and I say, "What the hell does that mean?" |
| The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with. |
| The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. |
| There were a lot of interconnections between the casts of the two shows. Noah Wyle was Mandy Pantinkin's godson. There was room for everybody to wish each other well, but the networks and the press seemed to want to make a big pissing contest out of it. |
| This was a major motion picture, it was a good role, it had all the earmarks of something that could very well be an "event movie" because of the heat these films are getting right now and the fact that Jamie Lee was returning to something was an homage to the granddaddy of all of them. |
| To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang. |
| We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off. |
| What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film. |
| You start looking at people who have been in horror movies and that covers everybody from Catherine Deneuve to Jack Nicholson to Mia Farrow. One of the things you want to do, as an actor, is get to work on things with as much variety as possible. |
| You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. |
| Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. |
| I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. |
| In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. |
| It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. |
| Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. |
| Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. |
| All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. |
| Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. |
| The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. |
| There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them. |
| We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. |
| Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. |
| I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. |
| I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. |
| It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. |
| Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. |
| That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. |
| At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down. |
| I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. |
| I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. |
| It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way. |
| It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. |
| Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine. |
| The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. |
| Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore. |
| I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. |
| But as long as Adam lives, there also live and reign with him the old man, and the carnal birth, the flesh, nature, corrupt reason, darkness, and the whole train of evils before mentioned, bring all comprised under the kingdom of Satan, and subject to damnation, and to the curse everlasting. |
| But if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil. |
| But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee. |
| Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. |
| For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. |
| Hence it is also true, that in the sight of God, no an is better than the most profligate criminal. For though that perverse temper which is natural to all, does not equally in all break out into works, yet God judges all men by the inward state of the heart, that poisoned fountain of all sin. |
| If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and how they live and act in men. |
| If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified. If thou refusest to comply with this order, thou canst not be a living member of Christ, nor be united with Him by faith. |
| In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. |
| It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. |
| Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of glorified bodies. |
| This consideration should excite us to the practice of true humility, and to an unfeigned fear of God; and at the same time restrain us from rashly despising our fellow-creatures, lest, by reflecting on others, we ourselves split upon the dangerous rock of carnal presumption. |
| This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. |
| Thou art required, O man! to die to thyself, thy sin, and the world; and to lead a holy, harmless life, according to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This thou art to do, not with a view to merit anything at the hands of God, but from a principle of love to him, who performed and merited all for thee, and died to save thee. |
| To this head we may also refer the following observations. First, In Adam we are ALL naturally equal, nor is one better than another; since we are all, both as to body and soul, equally polluted and corrupted, so that it is affirmed by St. Paul, not only of Jews and Gentiles, but even of all men in general, that 'there is no difference' |
| Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. |
| Whatever we enjoy from the time of our birth to the period of our dissolution, is all the bread of mercy and affliction, and designed to supply the bare wants of this mortal life. At the approach of death all is taken from us again, and we depart out of the world poorer than when we entered it. |
| When man enters the world, he brings with him life and a body, and finds the necessary shelter, meat, and drink provided for him; but, after existing a short time, he is, in a moment, bereft of all, and leaves behind him even his body and his life. |
| Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. |
| Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. |
| Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. |
| But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. |
| Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. |
| Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. |
| Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. |
| For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. |
| Greatness is a spiritual condition. |
| Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! |
| It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. |
| Journalism is literature in a hurry. |
| Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled. |
| Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. |
| Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. |
| Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. |
| Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. |
| The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. |
| The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. |
| The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
| The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. |
| The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. |
| This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. |
| Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. |
| Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. |
| With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. |
| It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.' |
| My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. |
| One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. |
| Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. |
| Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. |
| The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy. |
| What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability. |
| The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch. |
| All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. |
| But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. |
| Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. |
| Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. |
| However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. |
| I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. |
| It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. |
| Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. |
| No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. |
| So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. |
| There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. |
| Those who live, live off the dead. |
| Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. |
| When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. |
| With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. |
| Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. |
| I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. |
| Chester A. Arthur |
| Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. |
| Chester A. Arthur |
| Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another. |
| Chester A. Arthur |
| After being in the business for such a long time, I've done everything but rodeo and porno. |
| As part of your legacy to the world, I hope you will consider making a bequest or other planned gift to PETA. |
| At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit. |
| From your mouth to God's ears. |
| I actually talk a lot about how TV has changed. |
| I can't imagine working without and audience. And we had a great cast in both shows. And the great writers, directors-I was extremely lucky. |
| I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981. |
| I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows. |
| I said that in the show-that at age 8 I was already 5'8" 1/2 and had a deep voice, but that's not true. I do know I was always taller than anyone, maybe taller than the teacher, I don't remember. |
| I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy. |
| I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also. |
| I was in Threepenny Opera, and I left it to understudy for Tallulah. That's how I got my Equity card. |
| I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that. |
| I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me. |
| I'm having so much damned fun. Especially once I heard the audience response. |
| I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is. |
| I'm really not an invalid. |
| I'm using things that happened to me. Recollections of situations and friends. |
| I've done musical revues mostly. |
| It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful. |
| It's a very difficult thing to master. I don't think that many people have the light touch that comedy commands. |
| It's difficult, since Rue lives in New York now, and Estelle is not well at all. It's very sad. Of course, while you're working, you're like family. You swear you'll never lose each other, and then of course you do. |
| Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. |
| Lucy was lovely. |
| Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it. |
| Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. |
| My opening night at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis... has a thrust stage. I thought I was walking into the wings, and I walked right into the pit. |
| My vagina can't give a monologue! |
| No fruit. No veggie. |
| On behalf of my friends at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals... thank you for considering a bequest or other planned gift to support PETA's vital and lifesaving work for animals. |
| PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. |
| The head of the school took one look at me-this tall lady with enormous breasts... and a very deep voice-and cast me in all of these classical parts, Clytemnaestra and lots of Shakespeare. Then it came as a great shock after I graduated that Broadway was not hiring young American Shakespearean actors. |
| There were subjects we tackled that had never been even discussed, like I had an abortion. Nobody ever talked about that. |
| When something is written for the stage, I think it's wrong to try to make it bigger. Very few things out there make that jump easily. |
| You knew by looking at what they were wearing what their characters were. Betty always wore some kind of a shirt-dress with little buttons, and Rue, of course, wore these things that were such outlandishly bad taste. |
| You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. |
| You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS. |
| And I hate autobiographies, I don't know why. |
| And of course Mae West when I was very, very young, I thought she was the end. |
| But at least I'm not playing other people for a change. |
| But I did like the fact that we did a lot of good in presenting problems that had not been tackled before on television. |
| But I've been doing it most of my adult life, and I like the idea of a one woman show, because it's something I can do when I want to, and not to it when I don't want to do it. |
| But of course, it's very nice to have women realize that women our age can be attractive and well groomed and wear fabulous clothes and earrings, and have a sex life. |
| But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time. |
| Down in Florida it was an older audience, and it was interesting to see how they responded to things compared to other audiences, it's been very interesting. |
| Every time you perform you learn a little bit more. |
| Except for one thing, I no longer do benefits for research, I do benefits to make sure the people who are infected are taken care of are treated, and fed and housed, and their lives made a little easier. |
| Except I really wanted to be a small little blonde musical type in the movies. I wanted to be a starlet. |
| For us it was really the same, because we did the show in front of a live audience, it was like being on stage. |
| Having a recurring gay character in the 80's just wasn't feasable. |
| I can't imagine working without and audience. |
| I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. |
| I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved. |
| I don't think there was ever an embarrassment, there was such love going back and forth between the audience and us, that nothing was embarrassing. |
| I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit. |
| I guess having two kids who are bright and articulate and have great humor and are decent. |
| I guess just, I don't know, I didn't know I was that vibrant, I just love being alive, and I love people, and I find something wonderful everyday. |
| I have decided that I don't want to do any more episodic television. |
| I have two enormous Dobermans, they couldn't possibly fly with me. |
| I love cooking, I love reading, I love anything that doesn't take too much exercise! |
| I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio. |
| I think the mother-daughter between Estelle and me was one made in comedy heaven. |
| I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel. |
| I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! |
| I'm here now in Chicago doing my own show, and I think Golden Girls is shown three hours a day here, and everybody loves it. |
| I've been blessed with both shows, with that and with Maude, working with terrific writers and directors. |
| I've lost quite a bit of weight since I did Maude, but I don't see myself looking better, I think I look older. Because I am! |
| If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy. |
| In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, telling you how far you can go or what you can do. |
| In the show I actually talk a lot about how TV has changed. |
| It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how different it is from one night to the next. |
| It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond. |
| Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women. |
| Life is filled with a lot of stuff, you know. There is never a dull moment. |
| Maude's age, her outspokenness, make her real. For the first time, a person is coming on in a TV sitcom. |
| No, no. I was never that involved in anything political actually. |
| Now this goes to the grave with you - I hate cheesecake! |
| So what does it all mean? You become a popular TV personality. Fifteen million viewers weekly. Top ratings. |
| Some people say I'm only happy when I'm working, or not working, I'm happy whether I'm working or not, my animals, my kids, anything. |
| That's another reason that I don't want to do any more series. It really took up more time than I should have allotted to it. |
| The only one I wanted to do that I didn't was Gypsy, but by the time they got around to asking me, everybody in the world had played it, so I thought now is not the time. |
| There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't believe it. |
| There was so much more we wanted to cover on the show, but since I couldn't get the network censors to budge, I decided to leave the show. |
| They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. |
| Unfortunately opening night in Minneapolis I fell of the stage. |
| When you are working with someone it's like family, you are together every day. |
| Yes, but I've done musical revues mostly. |
| Yes... a little bit, I think I am a bubble-pricker... I don't like anything phony. |
| You see I feel we did the best work we could possibly do, I don't think the writing could be any better, so why go back to it? |
| A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one. |
| Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. |
| Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. |
| Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. |
| Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. |
| Every silver lining has a cloud. |
| Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. |
| God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. |
| Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. |
| If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. |
| Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. |
| Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. |
| No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. |
| People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. |
| Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. |
| Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. |
| The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. |
| There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. |
| Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. |
| We fall forward to succeed. |
| We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. |
| We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. |
| Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. |
| Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. |
| From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. |
| If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life. |
| One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. |
| Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. |
| There is a syndrome in sports called ''paralysis by analysis.'' |
| True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. |
| You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. |
| Acting has been very useful to me. |
| Acting is financially precarious-you never know when you'll work again. |
| After years of semi-fame, never really being famous but not being obscure, you get used to seeing yourself written about in so many ways. There used to be a bit of truth in everything, but not really truth in any. |
| Famous people shouldn't be obliged to take part in charity. Personally, I feel I can contribute-I can give time and help gain publicity for the causes I'm associated with. |
| Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. |
| Having done lifestyle books and being an actress, I suppose it made sense to bring the two together. I think that's what happened. |
| Holding one position for a long time is always tough, I got very cramped, and under the hot lights the chocolate did melt. It had to be topped up and eventually the smell was awful. For the rest of the evening I could smell the chocolate. But the photograph looked amazingly good and sophisticated! |
| I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on. |
| I haven't broken it off, but it is broken off,finished... I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other, and love each other, but it hasn't worked out. Perhaps we'll be childhood sweethearts and meet again, and get married when we're about 70. |
| I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops. |
| I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself. |
| I love Paul. I love him deeply,and he feels the same. I don't think either of us has looked at anyone else since we first met... I want to get married probably this year and have lots and lots of babies. I certainly would be surprised indeed if I married anyone but Paul. |
| I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. |
| I think my showbiz side must have come out, the enjoyment of entertaining, because the cakes got increasingly wild and funny until many years later when a friend suggested I put them all into a book. That became a bestseller and eventually cake-making stopped being a hobby and became a business. |
| I think one wants lots of different lives. |
| I use email now all the time-I'm a complete convert. I've always been one for leaping into technology because I love it but I wasn't sure about email, I couldn't see the advantage over fax and phone at first, apart from the cost. |
| I was never the dolly-bird type. I didn't particularly like going to discotheques and sitting up till 4am in a haze of cigarette smoke. |
| I'm at the outline stage now of a third novel and I'm trying to keep it brighter. |
| My image for people is a fluffy, biscuity kind of woman and the books aren't. But I can't judge it, I don't think they're that dark myself and I don't set out to write them that way. |
| Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody. |
| The show is really designed to give people new ideas for the home. It's just about sharing some tips for having fun. |
| There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things. |
| We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes. |
| We made Prince Charles' birthday cake-we're always very tactful about our VIP clients. It was the cake for the party at Highgrove, so it was a large one. |
| We make a lot of saucy cakes but I try to ensure that it's tastefully, humourously saucy rather than anything else. |
| We once created a birthday cake for a lady's party which was a model of her in the form of a naked marble statue. |
| After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued. |
| William H. Ashley |
| After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. |
| William H. Ashley |
| As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Being informed by the Pawneys that one hundred of my old enemies (the Arikara warriors) were encamped with the Arkansas Indians, and my situation independent of that circumstance, being rendered more vulnerable by the departure of the Indians, who had just left us, I was obliged to increase my guard from eight to sixteen men. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Game continues abundant, particularly buffaloe. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels. |
| William H. Ashley |
| I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. |
| William H. Ashley |
| It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. |
| William H. Ashley |
| It appears from this information that the river is not the Multnomah, a southern branch of the Columbia, which I first supposed it to be. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Northwardly, at an equal distance, were several mountains or high hills irregularly seated over the earth, which I afterwards ascertained to surround the sources of a branch of the Platt called Sweet Water. |
| William H. Ashley |
| On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Some of the valleys afford a species of fine grass, but the uplands produce but little vegetation of any kind except a small growth of wild sage. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The ascent of the hills (for they do not deserve the name of mountains) was so gradual as to cause but little fatigue in travelling over them. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The Eutaus are part of the original Snake nation of Indians. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The first two days, the country we met with was undulating with a gradual ascent to the west Southwardly at the distance of twenty or thirty miles appeared a range of high mountains bearing east and west. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The valleys and south sides of the hills were but partially covered with snow, and the latter presented already in a slight degree the verdure of spring, while the former were filled with numerous herds of buffaloe, deer, and antelope. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march. |
| William H. Ashley |
| The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate. |
| William H. Ashley |
| These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. |
| William H. Ashley |
| These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. |
| William H. Ashley |
| They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. |
| William H. Ashley |
| This dividing ridge is almost entirely destitute of vegetation except wild sage with which the earth is so bountifully spread that it proved a considerable impediment in our progress. |
| William H. Ashley |
| This was much the most severe duty my men had to perform, but they did it with alacrity and cheerfulness as well as all other services required at their hands; indeed, such was their pride and ambition in the discharge of their duties, that their privations in the end became sources of amusement to them. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Today we made 30 miles. |
| William H. Ashley |
| We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. |
| William H. Ashley |
| We encamped on an island after making about twenty-five miles. |
| William H. Ashley |
| We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season. |
| William H. Ashley |
| We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes. |
| William H. Ashley |
| Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing. |
| Also, I did a film called Dot with Edie Falco and Elisha Cuthbert. I play a character named Connor who is a typical high school jock that has a relationship with this deaf girl named Dot. |
| As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. |
| Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times. |
| Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. |
| Don't get me wrong; everybody has been completely welcoming, but at the end of the day, read-throughs are my least favorite part about starting a new project. |
| Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn. |
| Everyone definitely has a different technique: Hugh can turn it on and off. He's like, Hugh Jackman fun and games, and then all of the sudden, he snaps into Wolverine. |
| For me, for Iceman, it was all about a moment with Hugh. The whole understanding between Bobby and Wolverine - just about Rogue and Jean Grey, the women they love - the connection of unrequited love... it's a great moment. |
| Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job. |
| I don't, I just prefer that maybe, my girlfriends don't like video games, 'cause then we'd probably never leave the house. |
| I haven't read anything for a while, but I always flip through X-Men to keep up to date. Spider-Man, also. |
| I just finished a movie called Three Needles with a director named Thom Fitzgerald, who is a great Canadian filmmaker. |
| I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman. |
| I leanred a lot just by watching people. |
| I loved working with our director, Rob Lieberman, and our producer, Robert Halmi Sr. |
| I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going. |
| I play Bobby Drake, a.k.a. Iceman. The way I see Bobby is that he's basically a normal kid who's grown up with this mutant ability. |
| I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films. |
| I really liked Ged's dark side. He's a young man who is strongheaded, growing up in the middle of nowhere and feels destined for something else. |
| I still have, at my parents' old house, a big box full of comics in my old closet. |
| I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over. |
| I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them. |
| I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge. |
| I used to blow up G.I. Joes with firecrackers, so I hope nobody does that with mine. |
| I would do movies and TV, and in the summer I would skateboard, in the winter I would snowboard, so I had a pretty full plate. |
| I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough. |
| I'd love to have Mystique's shape-shifting powers, so I could change my form, and all Abercrombie clothes would fit me. |
| I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted. |
| I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school. |
| I'm a video game buff. |
| I'm training to play Terry Fox. |
| I've always been into sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but I wasn't aware of Earthsea or Le Guin's work. |
| Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions. |
| It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox. |
| It seems to me that there's nothing tougher looking that a bunch of X-Men in black leather outfits. |
| It was a completely different shooting schedule than X2. That was six months doing a two-hour movie. |
| It's nice to do something a little lighter, 'cause in X-Men we were super-tense the whole time. |
| Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings. |
| My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. |
| My roommates are comic fans too, so I always pick up whatever they have lying around. |
| No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion. |
| Obviously I think Vancouver definitely enjoyed our time there, a lot of money was brought into the city, and it was just exciting. |
| Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie. |
| Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it. |
| Right now I'm looking for the next thing, I'm taking my time finding something that really fits for me, I want to try something different from X-Men. |
| So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard. |
| Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting. |
| Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality. |
| That's why Ged is perfect for an actor because he's the hero, but not a classic hero in the sense that he does good all the time. |
| The character I got to play in Smallville was sort of like a duel character, I think sci-fi stuff just magnifies normal situations; it puts normal people in extreme situations, which I always find interesting. I've been lucky to have characters like that. |
| The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. |
| The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke. |
| The work that goes in, and the time and the talent to create this world that we're going to get to play in is pretty amazing. |
| Then I got the books, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan, read them and totally fell in love with the character. |
| There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally. |
| There's one thing that always amazes me no matter how many times I see it and that's Mystique's and Nightcrawler's makeup. |
| Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities. |
| Whenever I'm heading out, I wake up at the same time, leave at the same time and stop at the same Tim Hortons to grab an extra large coffee with one cream and one sweetener. |
| Why would people spend good money to have my pants? |
| Working on the film TERRY, I have to wear really short shorts. I have to say, they are my biggest fashion pet peeve. |
| Yes, but no, because there was already a huge fan base from the comics and I think the X-Men's theme of tolerance is what drives these stories and that's a timeless message. |
| You get bored if you do the same thing too much. |
| A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. |
| All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. |
| And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. |
| Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. |
| Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
| From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. |
| He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. |
| Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. |
| I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. |
| I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. |
| I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. |
| I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. |
| I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. |
| If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. |
| If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. |
| Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. |
| It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. |
| It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
| It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. |
| It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. |
| John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. |
| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
| Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. |
| Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. |
| Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. |
| No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. |
| Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. |
| Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. |
| Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. |
| Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. |
| Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. |
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' |
| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. |
| There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. |
| Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. |
| To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. |
| To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn. |
| To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. |
| Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. |
| As for who you're influences are, that's one of the things people always like to ask who are your favorite writers? Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days later you go, 'Oh my God! I forgot to mention so-and-so.' |
| Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate. |
| But we really didn't take each other's material and say 'This is a bad sentence.' Sometimes we would say 'This could use an element.' But I didn't take my stuff, give it to Bob and let him edit it; and I didn't edit his. Our writing styles are so different, that we really didn't want them melded. |
| Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the Quarter, whether it was historic or contemporary. Unfortunately, I was always tied up with previous commitments - earlier multiple contracts - and could not get a crack at it. |
| Humor is a family trait. I always loved getting on panels where they ask how do you do your research? The other writers say things like, 'Well, I work for NASA, and all I do is read scientific journals,' or 'I strap on chain mail and read tracts about William the Conqueror.' I watch Tiny Toons and the Marx Brothers, and Hope and Crosby road movies. |
| I sleep until 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and I usually don't start crashing until somewhere between 5 and 8 in the morning. |
| I think too many people try to distance themselves from the writing, because if it gets rejected, they don't want to hurt too much. They try to go with formula, archetype or what-not - and wonder why it won't sell or, even if it does, why people don't respond to it. Again, if you don't care about it, why should anybody else? |
| I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans. |
| It works better that way. Most of the commentary related to inconsistency of the lay-out. Or you've got a scene set at 10 o'clock; can you move it a bit later, because my scene is over at the pool table when so-and-so gets off work, and it would really clash. |
| It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this. |
| Myth-Ion Improbable, the eleventh book in the Myth series, is premiering this week, and I did a reading from Something Mythic, the twelfth, Saturday. I hope Something Mythic will be done by the end of the year and out by the end of summer next year. |
| New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. |
| OK, here's the basic story. What direction are we taking it in? What are we seeing for the next couple of scenes or chapters? |
| One of the things that drew me to the Quarter is that they keep the same kind of hours I do. A lot of the bars and the supermarkets are open 24 hours a day. A lot of times I won't head out before 11 or midnight, because the people I want to talk to aren't there. They're working the restaurants or whatever. |
| One of us starts out. The other one takes the next chapter, and it goes from there. The story starts shaping itself. After x-number of chapters, we'll sit down again and go 'OK, we're going to need an element here. I see a couple of ways you could pull this in. Do you want to do it through your character or through mine?' Then we'll discuss it. |
| Our mutual love of movie trivia factors occasionally in the 'Bone' character. It crops up a bit more in the 'Maestro' character. |
| Something that is very unusual for me, we worked without an outline. We were developing it as we led, letting the story flow through the characters and the investigation. Normally, I outline very tightly, because I hate doing rewrites, especially for humor. Trying to rewrite humor is a real drag. |
| That's a good question, but it's like having a 'Z' in Scrabble and no way to use it. |
| The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that everybody knows, including Maestro and Bone. |
| The characters are roughly based on our own characters - our physical description and age. Some of the obvious differences are apparent. For the character of Maestro, for example, I believe I may have created a new position in the Mafia. As the story begins to unfold, it turns out that Maestro used to be up North - basically Detroit. |
| The only time I see 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning is if I'm still up for it, and that happens on at least a semi-regular basis. |
| The other major influence would probably be my dad, who came from the Philippines. I'm old enough where we actually didn't have TV until I was in junior high, and he would keep us amused over the dinner table with tales of his life in the Philippines. So I was raised very much on the oral storytelling tradition. |
| There are about two thousand people who actually live in the Quarter, and a lot of those work Uptown, and only come back to the Quarter to sleep. But there are people who live and work in the Quarter who firmly believe you need a passport to get in and out of the Quarter. It becomes a little universe unto itself. |
| We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. |
| Writing that's not working for a living. |
| Ettie is an ox: she will be made into Bovril when she dies. |
| From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. |
| He could not see a belt without hitting below it. |
| It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. |
| Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. |
| Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. |
| She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. |
| The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. |
| The t is silent, as in Harlow. |
| There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs -apart from discernment -a certain greatness to find him. |
| What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. |
| America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Armies are not only for offensives. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| As I said before, our starting points are the principles and Syria's interests in its relations with any foreign country. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| As long as there is aggression against an Arab country, and as long as there is a war close to our borders, the danger continues. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Based on this understanding of Israel's nature and role, we should deal with the possibility of protracted aggression. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| But the issue has to do with land, which is our land. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Despite the fact that the country with the endgame, i.e. the U.S. has stated it, there are those who refuse to see the truth. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Hizbullah is not a militia. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| If the issue is just war, the military logic says that we are weak in comparison to a super-power. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Israel does not care about the international public opinion. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Israel has a vested interest in dividing Iraq into small ethnic, national and ethnic mini-countries, so that Israel could enjoy legitimacy. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests. |
| Bashar Al-Assad |
| It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| It is understandable that after a full Israeli withdrawal, Hizbullah will continue to play a role in Lebanese political life. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| It should be known that Israel is based on treachery. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it? |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Our conviction stems from our faith in the justice of our position and our nation, and is the result of our experience. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| The Gulf states, as well as the other Arab states, have their own principles, and they act according to these principles. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| There are attempts to push Syria into a direction that contradicts its present one. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| There are countries in the Middle East with diverse nationalities, but they have social and historic cohesiveness. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| We are basically against terrorism, and on 9/11 they learned a lesson, and according to them they wanted to combat terrorism. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them. |
| Bashar al-Assad |
| Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| For it is in giving that we receive. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| Where there is injury let me sow pardon. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. |
| St. Francis of Assisi |
| At our school, he [Jack Black] was the serious thespian dramatist. When I see him rocking out now, I find it shocking. |
| I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life. |
| I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about. |
| I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to be taller. But whenever we ran a lap, I wanted to run the fastest. I don't know why, on the wheel of fortune of personality traits, it stopped on ambition and hustle and drive. |
| I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off. |
| I'm so over-earnest sometimes. But my parents were pop-culture icons in the Sixties, and my mom has this Oscar, and I was trying to figure out, how am I going to leave my mark? |
| The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. |
| There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life. |
| And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that. |
| And I wasn't too intimidated by Shirley MacLaine because I am intrigued by her life experiences and wanted to learn about them in person. |
| And if it's really what you want to do, don't give up, even in the face of rejection. |
| And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. |
| Guns ARE evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! |
| Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired? |
| I bleed Dodger Blue and there is nothing tastier than a Dodger Dog. |
| I couldn't pin down a favorite because I have enjoyed the different people in all the different places I have worked. |
| I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years. |
| I recently saw my brother graduate from UCLA and I see how important it is to expose myself to a wider curriculum. |
| I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working. |
| I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. |
| I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations. |
| I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. |
| I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone. |
| I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero. |
| If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people. |
| It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported. |
| It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good! |
| People expect me to have a crush on Lisa or Nancy McKeon. No, no, I liked Mindy. |
| Sometimes you lose out because you don't get to see the real person that approached you. And sometimes you get better seats. |
| That was great because I got to play somebody who I am ideologically opposed to - that being the pretty, well-bred and well-subsidized Republican-type character. |
| There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am. |
| There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. |
| Unfortunately I have yet to join the info superhighway, but during the summer I used Sean's computer to check out the sporting websites online. |
| Well, I never got to meet Jack Nicholson. |
| When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television. |
| When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too. |
| You never get every job you want. |
| At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point. |
| At one point in his life, Poe tried to kill himself by taking laudanum, which is a derivative of opium, but he sort of made a botch of that, which is indicative of his life and lack of knowledge of drugs. |
| Because of Poe's vision and his depth of understanding of life, his material is universal and doesn't get dated. Poe is trying to open our minds to the greatness of life, the richness of life, and the importance of realizing that we are all in this together. We are all a part of one great organism. |
| Clarity and understanding are important to me as an actor. If I can help clarify some role, even if it is spookily close to me, it is well worth it. And also, maybe, I have a sensitivity to it. |
| He regarded EUREKA as his Magnum Opus; his greatest work. It was the culmination of his life, that he was able to say just what he said. It was the most difficult of all Poe's works. |
| I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are. |
| I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. |
| I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around. |
| I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life. |
| I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people. |
| I think people really want to be happy. |
| I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life. |
| I think the bottom line is Poe's extraordinary talent was apparent to Griswold and others. I don't think that his work, the depth and the scope of it, was really recognized by the people of the time. |
| I think, and this is my personal opinion, that it was a Mozart-Salieri thing. Griswold was simply jealous of Poe. |
| If you do something and you really care and you want to convey something in a subtle way, there are people out there that are going to pick up on it. |
| It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm. |
| My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. |
| My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do. |
| One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this. |
| One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express. |
| People are smarter than you might think. |
| People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us. |
| Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible. |
| Poe was not a diplomat. He did have some problems with alcohol, and he did behave a little outrageously sometimes when he drank. |
| Poe was the ultimate Trekkie, believe me. Poe talked about an expanding and contracting universe. Much of this was in EUREKA, his final work, which was swiftly rejected by everyone, and it broke his heart. It's fortunate for all of us that he wrote it, and it helps explain everything else he wrote. |
| Poe's view of the cosmos was not so far removed from current cosmology. |
| Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing. |
| Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy. |
| The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon. |
| The man he chose to be his literary executor trashed him on his death in his obituary. Rufus Wilmot Griswold. It's was Rufus Griswold's biography of Poe that for 100 years was included in Poe's collected works. So this trashing of him went on and on. |
| The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated! |
| There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. |
| There is a Poe that people expect to see. However, there is a witty and occasionally joyful Poe that the audience doesn't expect. In this respect, he isn't dissimilar to Gomez. |
| There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed. |
| There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard. |
| United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing? |
| We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be. |
| Why is the sky dark at night? Given an infinite number of stars, why isn't the whole sky lit up? Why are there great spaces and voids? Poe's answer to this is still valid, according to the scientists of today. Poe proposed a time and space continuum, fully a half a century before Einstein. |
| I married beneath me, all women do. |
| I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. |
| In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. |
| My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. |
| One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time. |
| Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. |
| Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. |
| The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. |
| The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. |
| The only thing I like about rich people is their money. |
| The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. |
| The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. |
| Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. |
| All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play. |
| As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change. |
| As time went on, I wound up on the other side of the island, at the nude beach, where I had no trouble getting an all-over tan. |
| Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. |
| Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. |
| But when I take the time to look at myself and see what I've accomplished . . . like I've got two incredible kids and a wife. |
| By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away. |
| Columbia put me under contract for four and a half years, which 20th Century Fox bought me out of to do THE PIRATE MOVIE. |
| Everybody wants to be like everybody else. |
| FATAL CHARM was an excellent piece, because it gave me the opportunity to be a twisted, psychotic killer, but with a Ted Bundy, nice-guy type of look. |
| Hollywood wants press, any kind of press. |
| I always had to have an all-over tan for the movie. |
| I always said if you could harness Kristy Mc Nichols energy you could light New York. |
| I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself. |
| I became a devout nudist after that movie. |
| I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. |
| I don't sing well in the shower! |
| I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it. |
| I got mobbed every time I went out of the house. Every single time! |
| I guess I'm like Paul Newman in THE HUSTLER; I was always very good at a lot of things, but I was never really excellent at any one thing. |
| I had A LOT of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before. |
| I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense of just letting things take their course. |
| I LOVE Australia! It's like my second home. |
| I really enjoyed Roddy McDowall a lot, and I had a good time, too, with Amanda Peterson. I mean, I had a good time with everybody! |
| I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. |
| I think the United States is way behind the times. |
| I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic. |
| I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me. |
| I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing. |
| I'm a very big believer in fate. |
| I'm really a romantic at heart. |
| I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me. |
| I've seen numerous frontal nudity with men recently - and not even so recently. |
| It's hard for me to see that it's mostly women doing nude scenes, because I'm always the one doing it in the films. |
| IT'S MY PARTY is about a man who's dying of AIDS and takes his own life. |
| It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity. |
| Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me. |
| Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. |
| Nastassia Kinski and I are friends. |
| Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault. |
| One day my manager got a call from Lorimar Productions. They accused me of sticking a sock in my swim suit! |
| One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray. |
| Probably a lot wiser and a lot more grown up, though I've realized that I never want to lose the kid inside of me. |
| So, I used the Procaine and I ran to Priscilla Presley and gave her a big kiss. The next thing you know she took it from me and kissed Patrick Duffy! They were always playing practical jokes on that set, always. |
| Thank God for machines. The can make a dog sing! |
| The Bulgarian makeup artist couldn't speak a lick of English, and made me look like some crazy Bela Lugosi thing! |
| The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place! |
| The loincloth became a status symbol, because THE BLUE LAGOON was such a huge hit. |
| The part of Frederick in THE PIRATE MOVIE was a comic takeoff on that. I was young at the time, but I've never been afraid of my sexuality. |
| The worst were the coral cuts, because when you get them a little organism actually grows. You can grow coral out of your arms or your feet or your legs, because it incubates in your skin. |
| There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing. |
| They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. |
| Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas. |
| We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff. |
| We figured they just wanted to hold me for BLUE LAGOON 2, but they just never got it together. I wasn't even approached for the sequel. |
| Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not. |
| Well, THE BLUE LAGOON is my favorite just because it was the very first one. It was an experience beyond experiences. |
| Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy? |
| Yeah, well, DIE WATCHING was one of those movies that came to me. |
| You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. |
| After each war there is a little less democracy to save. |
| Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. |
| Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe. |
| Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. |
| In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. |
| In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved. |
| It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. |
| It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. |
| People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. |
| The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring. |
| There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town. |
| We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. |
| All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. |
| An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. |
| Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. |
| Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. |
| Changing the way we measure things is vital. So is decompartmentalising society-making sure that economics and politics are not divorced from other crucial areas of life. |
| Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant. |
| Crying wolf is a real danger. |
| Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. |
| Here we are with even the most obvious things like a fishing policy or a transport policy-we know what the consequences are. |
| Homosapiens is a compulsive communicator. Look at the number of people you see walking around talking on mobile phones. We seem to have an infinite capacity for communicating and being communicated with. |
| I asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn't have any food for them. They were very unhelpful. |
| I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea. |
| I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you. |
| I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving. |
| I get Indian ring-necked parakeets in my garden every morning. There's a big colony living wild down the road. There might be some out there now. |
| I have never said that the reason we have got to preserve the tiger or the seahorse or whatever is because if we don't there will be some eco-disaster. |
| I haven't-touch wood-had a stomach upset for 15 or 20 years. |
| I joined the BBC as a trainee. At first, the television service had no money and it was regarded as a rather raffish arm of the BBC. |
| I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. |
| I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals. |
| I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them. |
| I mean, one is living an amazingly privileged life. It's only been the last 20 or so years that one could have possibly gone to all the places you and I go to. |
| I once had aspirations to be an anthropologist, and I know from anthropology that people will not accept difficult political instructions or governmental decisions from somebody who is totally divorced from them. If it doesn't speak the same language, it's no good. |
| I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my face. Actually, I hate rats! In my time, I've picked up all sorts of things in hotels-fleas, lice, tapeworm. |
| I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. |
| I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. |
| I think that anybody with any sense of perspective-geological or evolutionary-will recognise that the one thing the world has never ever been is static. |
| I think that the justification for what I do is that in the end you will only get a real change, a real shift in people's behaviour, if it has political backing. |
| I think there will be radical changes. But I don't actually think that within the next 100 years the natural world will be reduced to rats and cockroaches, nor do I think that the plant world will be reduced to some kind of desert. |
| I'm a very old BBC hand. |
| I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. |
| I'm afraid I'm not a practising Christian, but it seems to me to be absolutely correct that the Archbishop of Canterbury should be a political force. |
| I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. |
| I'm by and large against centralisation. |
| I'm coming towards the end of the shelf. |
| I'm especially involved, for example, in the Richmond Environmental Centre. That's one of those things you can hardly say no to. |
| I'm not in politics. |
| I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit. |
| If I can bicycle, I bicycle. |
| If I do a series or tapes for the States and it's sponsored by somebody for the public broadcast system, I am committed to going on tour around various stations. |
| If you don't pay attention to it... one doesn't want to be too high-flown about this... but it can lead to a great spiritual deprivation. |
| In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. |
| It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. |
| It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars. |
| It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. |
| It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. |
| It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. |
| It's about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life. |
| It's lost on me. I can just about tell if it's got a jet engine or one of those funny things on the front! |
| It's not just that we are dependent on the natural world for our food and for the very air we breathe-which is, of course, the case-and that the very richness of the natural world continues to provide us with all kinds of assistance. |
| It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance? |
| Just recently we were coming out of Niger and it so happened that there was a great pilgrimage so all the hotels were full. We ended up sleeping on the floor in tin huts with bed bugs and fleas. |
| Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. |
| My last trip was to the States, and on the way back I sat in the cockpit for take-off and landing. In a funny way, I think aircrew know that I've travelled a lot and therefore feel we are fellow professionals to some degree-which is nice, very complimentary. |
| Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world. |
| Oh, my capacity for guilt is enormous. I'm all the time thinking I'm not doing the things I should be doing, not doing enough of it, or I said I'd be vice-president of something or other, and what I have I done? Nothing. |
| People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. |
| People knew that animals were nocturnal but they didn't really know what they did because they couldn't see it. |
| People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. |
| People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England. |
| Right, we'd better have a bloody revolution. |
| Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in? |
| Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. |
| The fundamental issue is the moral issue. |
| The nighttime is a very active time. |
| The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways. |
| The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. |
| The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? |
| The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more. |
| The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. |
| There are a multitude of things that the individual can do. There is the present debate going on about petrol, for instance. The fact is that we are poisoning the atmosphere and the less fumes we put in it, the better. And we are using up our fossil fuels. |
| There are perfectly good independent small nations. |
| There are things to be done at all levels: from using less power and being more modest about the demands that we put on the environment; to not using CFCs; voting for the right politician, who you think is supporting these ideals; and giving a few pence, every now and again, to appeals. |
| There is a shift... whether there will be some 180 turn-I don't think there can possibly be. But I think that we might move away from some of the appalling materialist considerations which have governed politics for a long time. |
| Things change... I don't think we should regard change as a disaster. |
| Very few people in the history of biology could have seen as much of the actual things that I have, and the sad thing is that I do so little with it. I'm so busy gobbling it up that I don't sort of digest it. |
| We have said some terrible things! When I say we, I mean I identify myself with environmentalists and ecologists. We have said terrible things, like, in 10 years there will be no rainforest left. |
| We were sent in an old two-engined Dakota, which held 20 or so people. It took three days to get there because we couldn't fly at night as there were no direction-finders. |
| We've lived here for 38 years. This is where our kids were born, and this is my place. As far as I'm concerned, if I can't have this, I don't want anything. |
| Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. |
| When I was right in the middle of Borneo, you thought you were in a different world. There was no radio, no ways of communicating. |
| You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. |
| You don't meet many 5-year-olds who are not interested in a hedgehog or a stickleback. |
| You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. |
| You know, we could say yes, they were about to exterminate sea horses and now they aren't... But it isn't a solution to the world's problems. |
| You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies. |
| A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. |
| A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. |
| A word after a word after a word is power. |
| An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. |
| Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. |
| I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it. |
| I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. |
| If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. |
| If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. |
| In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. |
| Never pray for justice, because you might get some. |
| Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. |
| The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. |
| Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done. |
| We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. |
| You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. |
| And I was pleased to do it, because I've always been a big comic book fan, and Spider-Man has been one of my favorites. |
| And I, you know, I dabble, I doodle, I do things, I make masks, I use rubber stamps, I take photographs, I color them with my hands, with pastels, I do ink drawings and cartoons. |
| And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. |
| And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business. |
| At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun. |
| But mostly right now I'm doing wire sculptures, working when something interesting comes along, and otherwise taking it easy. |
| Clayton wasn't me but because it looked and sounded like me people tended to really connect me with that character. |
| For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself. |
| He's kind of a Prospero character - Prospero from The Tempest, with his daughter, living on this planet or asteroid. And along comes the Enterprise. |
| How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out? |
| I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people. |
| I did a voice for Odo, but people don't recognize you by your voice. |
| I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do. |
| I have sort of Dax-like spots on my forehead. |
| I just recorded a Star Trek novel. The Eugenics Wars Part Two. |
| I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it. |
| I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. |
| I miss it certainly in respect to the fact that I love being part of an ensemble and being part of a steady gig. |
| I never imagined that my character would ever be part of an ongoing film franchise because it really is all about Starfleet. |
| I played a judge, but I think they did away with him pretty efficiently at the end of the fourth episode of Judging Amy. |
| I really do the conventions now for two reasons. |
| I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great. |
| I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. |
| I'm just a doodler. |
| I'm never going to retire. |
| I'm not good at catchy blurbs - you'll have to get your catchy blurb from somewhere else. Or make one up! |
| I'm recording a novel tomorrow, and something else today - I keep doing voice work. |
| If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do. |
| In a lot of ways that was a professional decision in that I'd spent six years as Clayton Endicott III and was acutely aware after that finished how tied to the character I personally became. |
| In fact, to this day more people recognize me as Clayton Endicott III than as Constable Odo. |
| It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are. |
| My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness. |
| Of course, getting to play someone like Odo over a period of years has given me a greater understanding of the character. |
| On The Practice, the same character that I played last season - nice character, Judge Mantz - they'll probably bring him back. Not as a regular recurring role, but they'll probably bring him back once a season. |
| Paramount wanted a sex thing on Enterprise. And a nostalgic feel, like a return to the real old show. It was enough to have one neurotic Star Trek! |
| Primarily to raise money for Doctors Without Borders, because I give everything I get from that to Doctors Without Borders. |
| So I think that that's where hiding myself underneath the make-up has paid off in the sense that I will be able to leave Odo - someone I played for seven years - behind without being typecast. |
| So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine. |
| That's often why you see characters that look like they might be ongoing characters just sort of disappear, it's not 'cause the actor has failed, it's because maybe the story didn't live up to the producer's expectations, maybe the director didn't deliver what they had hoped, maybe... whatever. |
| The best scene is the last great scene I did. |
| The man who produced that, Stephen Lemberg, went to Carnegie Mellon University with me, and called me up and asked me to do it. |
| The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. |
| The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters. |
| The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music. |
| They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped. |
| This particular trip I'm cashing in my round-trip ticket to go to Ireland first to see my dad, who's 91 years old. |
| Voyager was the boring Star Trek! |
| We just love Australia. |
| We were over on the Voyager soundstages, with the same crew, a lot of the same faces, and pretty much the same script! |
| We've always, from the moment we were married and lived together, we've always lived in the most beautiful environments. |
| Well, I didn't mimic. I just read it straight. It was fun, but it's a little intimidating even to do their dialogue. |
| Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it. |
| Well, you know, when I first told my family that I wanted to be an actor, they were terrific about it, and as a kid I did a lot of acting... not professionally but in groups that we would pull together and of course we did our own sets and costumes and so I got involved in it that way. |
| Well. My grandfather was a great artist, and in Switzerland is recognized as one of their great artists, almost every museum has at least one or two of his paintings, often whole sections devoted to his work. |
| A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. |
| W. H. Auden |
| All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. |
| W. H. Auden |
| America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an Tlite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Art is born of humiliation. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Composing mortals with immortal fire. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. |
| W. H. Auden |
| For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? |
| W. H. Auden |
| Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. |
| W. H. Auden |
| God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say: Sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say. |
| W. H. Auden |
| I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. |
| W. H. Auden |
| I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. |
| W. H. Auden |
| If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. |
| W. H. Auden |
| In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. |
| W. H. Auden |
| In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. |
| W. H. Auden |
| It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. |
| W. H. Auden |
| It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. |
| W. H. Auden |
| It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. |
| W. H. Auden |
| It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. |
| W. H. Auden |
| It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Learn from your dreams what you lack. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. |
| W. H. Auden |
| May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? |
| W. H. Auden |
| Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Music is the best means we have of digesting time. |
| W. H. Auden |
| My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. |
| W. H. Auden |
| No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| W. H. Auden |
| No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| W. H. Auden |
| No hero is mortal till he dies. |
| W. H. Auden |
| No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Now is the age of anxiety. |
| W. H. Auden |
| One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. |
| W. H. Auden |
| The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. |
| W. H. Auden |
| The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. |
| W. H. Auden |
| The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. |
| W. H. Auden |
| The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. |
| W. H. Auden |
| The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. |
| W. H. Auden |
| There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic. |
| W. H. Auden |
| To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? |
| W. H. Auden |
| To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life, the word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away a man who's untrue to his wife. |
| W. H. Auden |
| We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. |
| W. H. Auden |
| We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. |
| W. H. Auden |
| What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. |
| W. H. Auden |
| When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. |
| W. H. Auden |
| When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. |
| W. H. Auden |
| You have to see the sex act comically, as a child. |
| W. H. Auden |
| You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. |
| W. H. Auden |
| You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. |
| W. H. Auden |
| You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at. |
| W. H. Auden |
| Your cameraman might enjoy himself because my face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. |
| W. H. Auden |
| A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. |
| After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. |
| Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. |
| As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. |
| Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. |
| But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. |
| But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me. |
| Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. |
| Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me but my humble talents. |
| How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? |
| How strangely our Bark is tossed-Poor as Job yesterday-rich as Croesus Tomorrow!-and who could not wish to live to enjoy this Life of pleasurable anxiety? Not I believe me. |
| Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published. |
| Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. |
| I am here in the snears of an eagle. |
| I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. |
| I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. |
| I do anything for money now a days. |
| I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. |
| I have now 42 Dollars, health, and as much anxiety to pursue My Plans of Accomplishing My collection |
