Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don't want to hear you do that again.
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.
The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
