The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
If my lyrics mean something special to someone. . . that's the most important thing to me.
I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?
Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. . . But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn't take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they'd ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn't believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course.
I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.
The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.