George Washington Quotes
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. 'If there is any one secret of success,' says Henry Ford, 'it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.'
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse
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When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.
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I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.
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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
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Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
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The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
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My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
