Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished...
Visitation Day - I was not even born yet when the world stopped turning, twenty years ago. It is hard for me to imagine that moment, though I have heard the tale many times, for I have never seen the light of the moon or a sunrise
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the ...
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged,...
I go into the Hebrew Scriptures frequently, looking for different ways in which minority voices have expressed the reality of God, and I find them. God is the wind in the Hebrew tradition, the life-giving, animating wind that gets identified with spi...
There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pron...
I was bored at college, so I put $10 in a jukebox in this place where people played ping-pong and pool. I put in $10 of 'Jingle Bell Rock,' and this was back in the '90s, so it played 'Jingle Bell Rock,' like, 40 times in a row. It was just really fu...
I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking ...
When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.
They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
Manners,” I say. “It ain't polite to taste people. Shit.
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
The bright stars of the skies are far to touch; but there are other shiny stars that you can touch easily: The books of the libraries!
I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.
