There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.
No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.
We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.
Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
