When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
They tried to humiliate and cow her down in every way possible, but Jayalalithaaji was unstoppable. With every attack, she became stronger.
Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.
There's a film that I wrote that I want to do called 'The Grey,' which is about a group of pipeline workers in Alaska flying back into civilization after being remote for a number of months. The 737 they're on goes down, and they begin to be hunted by a pack of rogue wolves.
Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.
I grew up in the Northeast; I've seen hurricanes before and trees down and cars destroyed.
I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of expand my lungs so that I can have better breathing when it comes down to two-minute drives where you've got to play a lot of plays all in one series and you're hurrying up.
Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss told me I was the first person to ever dislocate one of his fingers.
I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
