The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.
I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.
I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.
Not every woman has what I have, so if I could do something to help them, that should also be my duty.
Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between.