I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.
I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.
I'm fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won't dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity.
It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.
I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
I felt like I'd spent many years making excuses for my executives and making excuses for political candidates I was representing and their views, when some of those political views, in my mind, were very distasteful.
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
