Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow. . . but I'm still growing!
Journalism is organized gossip.
I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production. Over the last 20 years, myself and a lot of other musicians my age have tried to discover things in 50s, 60s, and 70s recording techniques that were lost or discarded. We've all been trying to crack this code. It's been an important period in the last 15 years, reclaiming some of those lost approaches to making records.