And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.
I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.
There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.
Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.
I would like to have a more social life than I have.
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
