The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.
The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
I think the most important thing about the Emmys stuff is just to enjoy it. It can get really stressful in weird ways, and I have definitely experienced that. This year, I really just want to have it be a fun celebration!
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
