We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.
~By Robbie Keane ~
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
~By Dixie Carter ~
There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
~By Burton Cummings ~
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
~By Jackie Robinson ~
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Where there are friends there is wealth.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
~By Lloyd Bentsen ~
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
~By Fred Frith ~
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
~By Richard Russo ~
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
~By Thomas Erskine ~
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
Everybody is just at the start of this huge process of trying to unravel what's going on with the 4,400, where they've been and why they're back and what they're trying to do with us in the present. And we're trying to work out what messages they're sending us.
~By Jacqueline McKenzie ~
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
~By Zane Grey ~
We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
~By Roger Ebert ~
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
~By Richard Pryor ~
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
It's one thing for the people in the industry to know who you are, because they've heard about you earlier. I have friends calling me from the Christian bookstore because there's a poster on the wall. It's just weird.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
~By Jock Sturges ~
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
~By Mike Epps ~
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
~By Brigham Young ~
Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.
~By George Ball ~
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
~By Susanne Langer ~
Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
~By Moliere ~
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.
~By Susan Estrich ~
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
~By Eminem ~
The End of the Affair is almost like a play.
~By Neil Jordan ~
That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
~By Aaron Klug ~
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~By Aristotle ~
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
~By Carre Otis ~
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life.
~By Margot Kidder ~
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
~By Nigel Dennis ~
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
~By Jane Addams ~
I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff.
~By Scotty McCreery ~
By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.
~By Shane West ~
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
~By Anna Jameson ~
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
~By Ewan McGregor ~
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.
~By Rick Renzi ~
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
~By Kurt Masur ~
Friends are thieves of time.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
~By Christina Romer ~
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
~By Plato ~
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
~By John Gay ~
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
~By Richard Lugar ~
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
~By Robert Hall ~
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
~By Patti Smith ~
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
~By Graham Coxon ~
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
~By Robin Williams ~
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
~By Kate Bush ~
In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.
~By Paul Reiser ~
Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
~By Les Paul ~
The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.
~By Carl Pope ~
Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim DeMint ~
If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.
~By Judd Hirsch ~
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
~By Walter Lang ~
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
~By James Thurber ~
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
~By Robert Frost ~
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
~By Damon Albarn ~
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
~By Pierre Jean de Beranger ~
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
~By Billie Jean King ~
Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.
~By Dean Cain ~
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
~By Sophocles ~
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.
~By Ruby Wax ~
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
~By John Woolman ~
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
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