Personal Quotes
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.
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For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
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Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.
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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.
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That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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I thank my personal staff for their restless sacrifice for my work.
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Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
