Jean Rostand Quotes
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Quotes to Explore
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
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I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.
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No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
