Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
It is both impractical and very harmful for each state to enact differing and conflicting privacy burdens on broadband providers, many of which serve multiple states, if not the entire country.
The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.
The merger mania which goes on and on and on is the sign of the disappearance of competition. As we deregulate, the mergers increase, which means there's less and less competition. At the national level, at the regional level, but also at the international level.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
