The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.
I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away...
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment.
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
Behind every dancer there’s someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment.
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!
Then there are these heavy perennial moments that suddenly unearth me, when the world takes on this ravaging clarity and you feel marooned, cut off from normality.
We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick.
