New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.
But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
