Bill Shankly Quotes
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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I am such a political person.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. In the dewy fields the cattle lie Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky; Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
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Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
