I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.
If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!
I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
It doesn't matter if I ever win another award or get to play another major jazz festival in America. I would rather not garner any of those things and speak honestly about the things that I see my people endure in this country and all over the world.
I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.
You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight', which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.
I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.
There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
My goal from the beginning was, if I ever hit it it big, I would give back. And that continues to be my goal moving forward.
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
