Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead
Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have. . . almost a message for the rest of the world.
You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.
Whoever was shouting about dictatorship there. . . when I heard that, I thought: it's better to be a dictator than gay
It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
Small to greater matters must give way.
It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.