L.A. Paul Quotes

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

Madonna has a very unique style and comes up constantly with these great songs.

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.