William Stafford Quotes
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
Quotes to Explore
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Love is a state of being.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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I can always go back to education.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes". But if your questions are less superficial, for example whether some well-known scientist was a good scientist. Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities. Ask "If that turned out to be true, would you still say they were good scientists?" The answer would reveal something about how they themselves understood what it is to be a scientist.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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I'm kind of horny, conventional methods of making love kind of bore me.
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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
