Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.
Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.
I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.
I follow Rick Falkvinge, who founded the Swedish Pirate party and was one of the very early adopters of Bitcoin.
Not to sound too hippie, but I work so much off of energy. I'm a Pisces, and that's part of who I am.
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.
He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.
On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.
'The Borrowers' is the story of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of houses and borrow from the occupants. I may have tried to pull up a plank or two because of it.
