The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.
A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.
I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it's the simplest to watch.
The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.
I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.
I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Every Sunday on Channel 6 in Guadalajara, where I lived, they dedicated most every Sunday to black-and-white horror films and sci-fi. So I watched them. I watched 'Tarantula.' I watched 'The Monolith Monsters.' I watched all the Universal library.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
I do most of the cooking in my head.
Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.
I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.
I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Most of my friends are not actors. Most people have an idea of what an actor's life is, and it's pure glamour and excitement: it's easy and free and everyone loves you. But with a certain level of fame, there's a real level of paranoia and depression that comes with what you do, that nobody talks about.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
