I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.
On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly aware of magical everything is: the holodeck, the warp drive. It's possible that with wormholes we might eventually be able to do something like that. But the laws of physics are pretty unforgiving.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble. . . to give way to hope, fear and greed.
My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have. . . because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
It's time to get your head out of the dumps and your legs in the air!
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?
I have a few things that I have written over the years that haven't been made, but I sort of feel like there was a good reason why they were not made. So I am not anxious to go back and fix them. I don't have something in the desk drawer that I think, "The time is right now. If I just do this, it'll be great. " It is kind of out of sight and out of mind. I am thinking ahead rather than back.
The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
If it's too much for people, if audiences don't accept it, well I guess that's just the way it is. I'm not being cavalier when it comes to my financial partners, but I think I've earned the right to do my thing my way. While I really want it to do well and it would be lovely if it's popular, movies are for a long time. I'm really proud of the piece. If it ends up not connecting with audiences, I won't be heartbroken. I'll be a little disappointed, but I won't be heartbroken.
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
That with him were, what time the Love Divine
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.