Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.
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A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
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The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
