The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne'er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider who might threaten the trade.
My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what's going to happen until it's done.'
I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.'
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
It seems everyone who knows about Celtic knows they are historical, and if you play here, expect diehard fans.
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.
Orchestral musicians have a different approach than we do, and when I say 'we,' I mean musicians who don't know what they are doing.
I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to disagree against the Left's style of orthodoxy.
There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
