When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard.
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the cultu...
In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly all these good-looking women were interested in me.
The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.
Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.
Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?
How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?
It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed. It sounded like a revolution. It sounded like hope.
No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.
...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...
...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...
Just because The Past always hung there upon its hooks on the game-room wall, you didn't have to pull it down and use it on yourself.
Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.
The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical…
A brick could be used to direct traffic. Use a brick from the scene of the accident, where some driver ran into a brick wall.
A brick could be utilized to teach the danger of procrastination. Ignoring the brick and pretending everything will work itself out is not going to transform it into a wall.
