The ugly truth is it's the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.
I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
The Professor: We ahh... we do nothing.
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.
There will be the IV poles, the divorce papers, the sound of dirt hitting a casket. We will have moments where we can't catch our breath and all the world seems wrong, and we can't help but wonder if He even cares.
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. ...
I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind m...
The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the...
My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.
Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
Silence, too, can be torture.
Progress is hard on history.
All change begins with someone having a thought.
It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.
I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.
I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.
