An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.
I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
