I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

No one ever complained their way to the top.

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

The lover of God will cry and weep until he finds rest in the Beloved's embrace.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

Kids are naturally curious about what they dont know or dont understand or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

A grain of devotion is more valuable than tons of faithlessness.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.

I can shoot a basket pretty well.

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.

Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

I believe we have a responsibility, even if our job is to lead a nonprofit organization, as private citizens to be good citizens and to make our voices heard.

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.