I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend. . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take
People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.
Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.
There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one.
I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader. '
More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts. '
And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe.
I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.
In a two-hour interview last Friday, Bruce Jenner told ABC's Diane Sawyer, 'For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman. ' At which point, Joe Biden ran in and started giving Bruce a shoulder rub.
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.
