A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
Mac MacGuff: Thanks for having me and my irresponsible child over your house.
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
[from trailer] Rosa Hubermann: Can we trust her? She's a child. Hans Hubermann: She's our daughter.
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.
Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything.
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.
[about Elizabeth] Norfolk: She is just a child and yet still you piss yourselves!
Helen Jordan: If only I had been raped as a child! *Then* I would know authenticity!
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
