The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.
For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in any close relationship. Yet there is something special about sisters - specially gratifying and specially fraught.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
I'm always teasing and clowning around and laughing and in the locker room I tend to always have something to say.
If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.
I rinse my hair with Coca-Cola sometimes. I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something.
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
The ascot connotes informality. It is something one might wear at a cocktail party in one's own flat but is not something you wear out in public.
There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.
There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.
I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example, was a fluidlike substance called 'caloric' that flowed from hot objects to colder ones.
To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.
The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.
I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
