I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.
Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.
Fred Friendly: Did you write your closing piece? Edward R. Murrow: It's Shakespeare. Fred Friendly: Uh-huh. Write your closing piece.
Dutton Peabody: Give me a drink. Tom Doniphon: Bar's closed. Dutton Peabody: Just a beer! Tom Doniphon: The bar's closed. Dutton Peabody: A beer's not drinking!
Remy: [the others have him sniffing their food for poison] Clean... clean... cleanerific... cleanerino... close to godliness... [rat looks confused] Remy: Which means clean. You know, cleanliness is close to... Never mind. Move on.
I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?
Dine with a friend but do not do business with him.
A friend -- one soul, two bodies.
One God, one wife, but many friends.
A powerful friend becomes a powerful enemy.
They are not all friends who laugh with you.
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
A stone from the hand of a friend is an apple.
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
A friend is known when needed.
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Books and friends should be few but good.
