I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.
I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
A country without engineering skill and knowledge will never become a developed country.
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.
As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.
