What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.
But I let it slide, because, hello, hot guy.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.
I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary.
England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place. . . an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.
In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.