T.E. Lawrence Quotes

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.

Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

I played one game, and one game played me.

As players, we always have a way to get back at you.

People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

I have a whole different type of lifestyle.

Everyone that ever met me has been in love with me.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.

Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the teachers; it's not the fault of the young artist.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

My first appearance, the first time I try anything, invariably is not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Sounds always fascinated me.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

You know, it's a long world.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management continues.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

I don't dispute Scientology can help people; I think that is a very important fact to keep in mind.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.

Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.