I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
