I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.
It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.
A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.
On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me
I curate my T. V. -watching quite carefully.
I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.
After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.
I'm pretty sure most of us would be more fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment quite so much.
To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.
It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.
So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain. '
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different
