Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine as any.
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature
As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.
Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava.
You dance?” “I think that might be overly optimistic,” he said. “I do something. I’ll try not to hurt you.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.
Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)
Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.
Time flows like a river, and we all wish we were like salmon that can swim against it. Life's too grizzly for it to be that easy.
I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.
My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you.
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?
I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game.
There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.
