Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I can't explain some of the things I've seen and...I've done some things I can't explain.
The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.
I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!
Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost
The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on s...
Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endo...
May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them t...
Although now long estranged, Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned: Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light through whom is splintered from a single White to...
Scuttle: Well, look at what the catfish dragged in! [laughs] Scuttle: Look at ya! Look at ya! There's something different. Don't tell me. I got it. It's your hairdo, right? You've been using the dinglehopper, right? [Ariel shakes her head] Scuttle: N...
