Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Quotes to Explore
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
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People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
