What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
I know all about Orange County.
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.
We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
