Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes. . . narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.
It's a holy city for music.
Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.
Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a time, but in mental, creative work he believes one can do his best only for two hours at a time on any one subject, but he can work another two hours on another subject with equal freshness. He therefore sometimes works two hours a day on each of five different creations, and in that way can live five lives at a time.
I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.