Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
You shouldn't say mean things to people before they kill you. It's being a sore loser.
The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in. '
When people say 'marriage' to me. . . It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
Trudeau has to defend Canadian interests and values. But he has to do it in a way that doesn't say that Trump is stupid or outrageous or completely xenophobic - staying away from the epithets, and restricting his comments to areas where there's either false information, fake news, alternative facts, etcetera, about Canada.
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
They say that Heaven is like TV. . . a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.
As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.
Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.
As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.