I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.