The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
I've always collected vintage kitchenalia because it's beautifully made, and I love to see things that have been used down the ages.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.
I said a lot of things about which I was wrong. Now I have to sit back and take what's coming, and I will. I still like women in the bedrooms and kitchens in that order, but some of them can do other things.
When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.
Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.
Being told to get out, not being afraid to fail and try new things - that really makes a difference.
