In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.
This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.
I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.
I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.