I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.
It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.
The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
