William Cowper Quotes
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
Quotes to Explore
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
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I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.
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In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
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If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
