One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
One thing we were looking for from the start was players who really fit together, who sounded in tune.
One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Amongst it all my soul craved one thing, Love, for it was the beginning and end of anything that will ever truly matter.
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
