At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.
My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
When I was nine, my father passed away. It's one thing when you're a kid and your father wasn't there for you. My father was there, and then he was taken away.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
