There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one's about my dad's life. I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There's also a really cool concept for a spy novel.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
A forest bird never wants a cage.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.
Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.
Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months.
There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and the beach.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
