Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening.
When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
There's something to be said about sitting in front of the TV and being removed from your own life and just pushed into another one.
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'
