I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.
Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
I enjoy doing TV than movies. I do enjoy watching music reality shows but never get approached to participate in reality shows. I also enjoy reading books and take time to finish them.
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
