I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. So, you think maybe there are other answers. There are not but if you belief something will help you it probably will: it will help, not cure.

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Most Americans and other Westerners claim to have read all or part of the Bible. However, when asked to identify even four books of the Bible or four of Jesus' disciples or four of the Ten Commandments, fewer than half even attempt to respond and fewer than one in ten respond correctly.

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

I'm trouble, but in a good way.

I've been to New Zealand, like, 25 or 30 times.

When you dance to your own rhythm, life taps its toes to your beat.

Coke is great from a can still good from a bottle yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh when they do get it right it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany youll sit there for the rest of your life.

I can tap dance a little bit.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.

From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Retain a calm heart sit like a turtle walk swiftly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Generally if youre a daughter in a Mexican family no one wants to tell you anything they tell you the healthy lies about your family.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

Lazy people are always eager to be doing something.

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.

I'm a homebody times ten.

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.