Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.
I'd rather have a uncertainty than certainty. I don't want to know what's going to happen. It can't be good.
Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.
I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
Our faith may be big enough to elicit a miracle, but our faith is seldom large enough to embrace it once it actually happens.
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.
Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
