I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
I want to excel at something, to follow through, to not be afraid.
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well - there was hardly a day when I didn't learn something new about them.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.
When a kid plays football games before he attends a class, something is wrong.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.
Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.
I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.
Always have something to look forward to.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
I would quite like to create a fragrance for men though - something that I like.
