When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same. ' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.
Do you think she’ll catch him before he gets to the hall?” “My mom’s spent her whole life chasing me around,” Clary said. “She moves fast.
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.