Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
I have never been opposed to earmarks.
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'
I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
I'm open to starting restaurants anywhere as long as the produce that's readily available is high quality. For example, I'm never doing a restaurant in Shanghai because I saw the produce available there, and it's just not good. I won't do a restaurant in Moscow for the same reason.
There's been rumors going round. I never confirm any of them.
When you lose a loved one, you come to these crossroads. You can take the path that leads you down the aisle of sadness, or you can say, 'I'm never going to let this person's memory die. I'm going to make sure everything they worked for continues.'
You never can stop learning.
But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
I'd never heard anything about this at all.
We never thought the show would last this long.
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
I once did a film in which I was being chased by wolves. I had a scene where the Alpha of the pack leapt on the hood of my car and stared me down through the windshield. I will never forget staring into those eyes; this wasn't a dog - not even a tough, bad-ass dog - no, this was a wolf.
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.
I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
