And Quotes

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

No one enjoys being away from friends and family.

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world.

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

I don't know about making a passionate love story, even if it's appealing for an audience to see a husband and wife make love on the screen.

We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.

There’s nothing like the first kiss once you’ve been pronounced husband and wife. It’s such a wonderful moment!

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

It's not the worst thing to slap a woman now and then.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.