I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.
I want you to hear me tonight, I am not saying that President Obama is the Antichrist. I am not saying that at all. One reason I know he's not the Antichrist is the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes.
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
It took me a month to get out of the mindset of O.J. But even now, still, I think it might have done something to my vocal chords. I went to see the doctor, and he was like, 'I don't see anything. You're fine.' But mentally, I might have broke a little bit.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.
I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.
I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Sterling K. Brown in the same way that I think of Andre Braugher and James Earl Jones.
I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.
Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'
