How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.

Faith is a powerful force and it speaks the language of the spirit. When you are possessed with the spirit of faith it changes the way you see things and how you speak about them.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

So many of the pleasures of recreational scuba diving don't exist for the deep wreck diver. It's not beautiful scenery for the most part; in fact, it's usually very dark. It's physically burdensome. These guys carry almost two hundred pounds of equipment, and should any of that equipment fail, they risk death.

To crush fear doesnt mean you eliminate it crushing fear means you literally crush it down into smaller more manageable parts and tackle one piece at a time.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles.

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

My favorite moment of the 2012 election was the debate question where they asked Romney and Obama what they would do to stem gun violence, and Romney's answer was you should marry someone.

Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.

I'm on Tumblr all the time.

I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.