Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.
If I know it's going over the fence, I am going to start jogging and just get around the bases and get back in the dugout.
I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.
Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.
I started from zero and went back to the basics in gymnastics.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
My battalion motto in the Marines was, 'Whatever it takes,' and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.
I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
I'm totally convinced that the battleground of banking is not the front office. The battleground is the back end.
I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.
I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.
Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.