Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.
Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]
Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.
He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.
A tie is a two-way loss, not a double win. Only a loser feels like a winner by being the equal of his opponent.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.
Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.
In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.
If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.