Some players like to practise right up to the start of play. But for me, whatever warming up I did was only going to be followed by cooling down again.
The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
If I got Corey Graves into a fisticuffs, I would beat him down like he stole something.
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage pathways to make more genetic material. Purine is salvaged in the form of the corresponding nucleotide, whereas pyrimidine is salvaged as the nucleoside.
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found.
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
The inattention of the Bush administration to the threat from al Qaeda had results. Shortly before 9/11, Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft, turned down FBI requests for some 400 additional counterterrorism personnel.
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
