I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
My partner and I had our first son in 1996, and the office became the baby's room. Our second son was born in 2001, and the office became the kids' room.
I'm born with wild horses in my head.. With an imagination to conquer this world.. I will not settle for comforts of a golden cage.
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
I will take a short time out from being in Parliament when the baby is born but I'll still be doing my constituency work - just with another baby in tow.
I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves, as a matter of fact.
When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
[in the past, Marty observes his dad's incompetence] Marty McFly: Jesus, George, it was a wonder I was even born.
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
