Seamus Heaney Quotes
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Quotes to Explore
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane
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But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
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Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
