I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.
Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.
It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing his own campaign. That's very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy.
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it's important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.
I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.
