And Quotes

I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

Angus looked at Hamish. "I hate it when Mom and Dad fight." Hamish smoothed his brother's messy hair. "Me too.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.

I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.

Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .

Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise.

Will you come down and kiss me good night?

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

When I go back to any of the mini-series or series that I've done, the heart and soul of the show always centers around how the people that we love are affected by our decisions.

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Every organization does good and bad things.

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.