The night before a biochemistry class, I read the last year's lecture notes. I look at the pictures in the book. Now, I've got the general concept. Sure...There's a couple of details to fill in and a a few things to memorize. But that's no big deal. ...
Inigo Montoya: My father was slaughtered by a six-fingered man. He was a great swordmaker, my father. When the six-fingered man appeared and requested a special sword, my father took the job. He slaved a year before it was done. [Shows the Man in Bla...
Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed w...
After a pretty amazing year that included more wins than I thought possible, I rang in 2013 by watching the Times Square ball drop on TV... and then heading directly to bed. It might not have been the typical New Year's Eve for a 21-year-old, but wha...
[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)
Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm li...
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of No...
Next to music, beer was best.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.
We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
The next point - that's all you must think about.
First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
You never know what an artist is going to create next.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
