Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones.
Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.
The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.
Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!
The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.
I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire. " But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.
Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.
A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.