If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
Asteroid detection, tracking, and defense of our planet is something that NASA, its interagency partners, and the global community take very seriously.
I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
