In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.
Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.
Being onstage and performing, the high of that, and people coming to see you, and getting to make them laugh - that's what gets me hyped up. It's a nervous excitement.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs.
The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.
An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
You know what they say when a supermodel gets pregnant? Now she's eating for one.
. . if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away all their cynicism if they could. The majority just never gets the chance.
Meritocracy has nothing to do with who gets in. It's more who you are and where you come from and where you are employed.
It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.
For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.
Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.
Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.
I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.
School gets in the way of my learning.