I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
She's alive," Thomas said, not opening his eyes. "What?" Will was caught off guard. "The one you come back for. Her. Tessa. She's with Sophie.
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.
As far as he was concerned, there were only two good positions for a human. A female on her back. And a male facedown not breathing.
What happens slowly carries in each part the possibility of returning to what came before. In an accident everything is simultaneous, sudden, irreversible. It means this: no going back.
He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe.
If I can't talk smart I'll just sit back and listen.
A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten.
No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it's not to keep her on her back, it's to get her off his.
But there is one part of this that hurts. The carefree, normal part. The part of me that was lost when we first moved and that I'll never get back.
If we do not fight to protect and preserve the freedom our ancestors died to obtain for us, our children will die to get it back.
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back
To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.
You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.
