In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.
First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.
When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks.
Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
