Little Quotes
I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.
There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.
I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.
I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
