They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!!
They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we’re gone.
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.
I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught.
People say you have expensive tastes. My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap.
People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons," they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.
Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
