Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.
I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.
There is a thought among some brands of theology that souls are waiting up in heaven to be born. Now how in the world anybody comes up with that is beyond me, and how you can be so sure of that is also beyond me. I always like to go back to Snoopy's ...
Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who happened to use vampirism to get what he desired. Som...
I had a dream about you. We were checking in to a haunted hotel, and you said you forgot your toothbrush. I told you my left pants pocket was empty if you wanted to clean your teeth with that, but you said you’d rather suffer through halitosis, bec...
I feel like, I was going somehow with my life, holding myself together and then these blasts happened, and then suddenly I was paralyzed. I was not able to move, or to even hold myself intact. As if like I was fallen into this unconscious state, of e...
To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.
It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win... in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla?
There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven.
To be the best you must be able to handle the worst.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
... reading was hardly as practical a skill as being able to handle a dagger or use Allomancy?
