To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
Underachiever. Asthmatic. Excuse-maker and fistic faker. My opponents and some other haters have called me all of those things.
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
I always am astounded at how willing Steve was to share all about himself. And sometimes he got criticized for it. But he was so open and yet so private about some things.
The stupidest thing I ever did was turn down 'Terms of Endearment' to do 'Cannonball Run II.' Jim Brooks wrote the part of the astronaut for me. Taking that role would have been a way to get all the things I wanted.
Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
