I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.
If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.
In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.
Our immigration law sucks, and we need to redo the whole thing, comprehensive immigration reform. And what that's gonna be is anybody who wants to come and vote Democrat, we're gonna send 'em a limousine and bring 'em in.
Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.
I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people.
I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. . . In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.
Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too.
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.
There are some griefs so loudThey could bring down the skyAnd there are griefs so stillNone knows how deep they lie.
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.
I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.
The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.