If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
A scientist's accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!
Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
Jude did not flip them off and then drove for a few blocks feeling good about himself, proud of his restraint. His will, it was like iron.
A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.
Mowgli: [mentioning Kaa] Bagheera, he's got a knot in his tail! Kaa: [imitating Mowgli] He-he-he, he's got a knot in his tail!
I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.
He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.
