The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone, this all I have lived for, this all I have known.
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.
I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
If I was in a situation where it wasn't working and I had a choice with another man, I'm gonna assess it like a business deal: who is the better person for me?
I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.
Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.
I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.
