I had had no art training.
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something. . . I don't feel that great about it.
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability
The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.