I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Winter is the time for comfort for good food and warmth for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire it is the time for home.

When we think of cruelty we must try to remember the stupidity the envy the frustration from which it has arisen.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.

Mankind must put an end to war, before war puts an end to mankind.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we of course to whom things look little or big.

I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Any artist thats involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement.

Don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Gay rights are human rights.

Natto, Japanese ferment bean paste, will never cross my lips again. Spam Musubi, on the other hand, is something I love. I used to have a roommate of Vietnamese descent, and he would eat it all the time. It looked gross, but I finally had it - wrapped in seaweed and rice - it was terrific.

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice to you. You go into politics, and people are absolutely brutal. You've got proper enemies, and they're vicious. It's very invigorating.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.