I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.
I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.
My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas.
In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.
I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.
