Bebop has set music back twenty years.
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro.
A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius. ' It shouldn't be like that.
It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.
The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.