How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?
Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Goliath was a champion, a monster who had never been beaten, and then this young guy, David, came forward, a child who believed in God and did it.
I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.
People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.
I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.
We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.
Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
There shouldn't be a segregation of women over a size 16, it should just be all women who want to wear beautiful clothes.
There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.
