I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.
I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water". . . the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans. " And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.
Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!
Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.
The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields. . . they have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.