I would literally never think about melody. I never thought people listened to melody because I listen to words.
"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them. "
The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past. " We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us. . . regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.
Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.
I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.
Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.
There's nothing man ever dreams of that God hasn't already thought of!
But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason. . . Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.
The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.
And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
I remember being like, 12 years old, and this was in the days before cell phones, or at least, having a cell phone. Some girls, I can't even remember who they said they were, called and said they had a crush on me. But it turned out to be a prank, and I thought that was just straight up nasty, you know what I'm saying? You're just sort of developing. You're insecure, your bones are growing. . . you have trouble sleeping. And all of a sudden, someone's pranking you on top of that? It's tough growing up.
Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.
I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.
It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.
