Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.
I've had the great honor of traveling across the world on behalf of our country. I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children, like the used to do in Romania.
I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time
Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die. " "Yes," said Ford, "except. . . no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.
It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco. . . all across the world.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.
The little things that you do From across the room I see you sendin' me clues They're in the way You make me move
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.
The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.
My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.
The ability to make fire at will. It allowed us light to see in the darkness, warmth against the cold, a tool to cook our food. ’ He gestured vaguely in the direction of the Delta’s engines. ‘Fire is what eventually led to travel across the black beyond, the ability to start a new life on a New World.
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.