I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful as us. We have the future of our species in our hands. We could be the generation that people look back on and say, 'They bloody did it!', not 'They didn't bother. '
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person. . . I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say, "Be very careful, dear boy, what you get in to during the first weeks of a long tour. "
I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.
I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter. ’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.
I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview. " Fun is talking to you.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.
The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.
I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
We say God did not intend anyone to be this way - to be gay or lesbian.
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add. ’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.
What did you say to Souness after the end of the final whistle?
People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so. '
People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.