Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
Growing up in a family of gamblers, daredevils and practical jokers, I've learned a lot about timing and its first cousin, dumb luck, concepts I was introduced to while still in the womb.
They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions...
I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.
I have about as much artistic talent as a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs in a bag.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for ...
When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need mos...
Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.
I view art as an inspirational tool.
He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
