I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage.
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
My priority will always be my performance more than anything associated with a film. I always look forward to give my best to the character I play on screen.
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.
Prevention is better than cure.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
They may be a little more high brow than we are.
The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
