If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not. " The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous. . . if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
You’re the world to me,” I whisper onto her lips. “I hope you never forget that. ” “I’ll never forget,” she whispers back. . “But if I ever do, for whatever reason, I hope you’ll always find a way to remind me. ”. . . “Always.
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.
Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own. . . I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.
You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.
Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so I was thinking of that audition again recently with the sudden passing of Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries singer. And I remember that song, I was like, "Okay, I can do anything" as I was driving onto the lot at Universal.
If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.
I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.
I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like my life jacket. If I didn't have that way of processing those feelings, I'd probably be a murderer.
Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill