One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
Ephor #2: Trust the gods, Leonidas. King Leonidas: I'd prefer you trusted your reason.
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.
According to the reality, I assume that we are not going to meet again. Yet, I do believe that we have met for a reason
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
