George Burns Quotes
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Quotes to Explore
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Women just love to shop.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'
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Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
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Never in the known history of man has a people or nation stockpiled weapons and in the end not used them. But if we use the weapons we have stockpiled it will be the end of nations and peoples if not the end of the whole race. Never has the human family so urgently needed a transformation of consciousness. Those who devote themselves to contemplative meditation are performing a most basic and loving service. It is a very real response to the call to love and to act.
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A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.
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I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let's take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
