Earl Weaver Quotes
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
Quotes to Explore
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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I like to discover new things.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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I'm pretty good with languages.
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I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.
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I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
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You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
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Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
