The early bird catches the worm.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.

The early bird catches the worm.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The notion of getting the general public into low-Earth orbit I don't think is far-fetched at all.

Youre getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

You better be looking for another pitcher.

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

Introverts don't get lonely if they don't socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don't have intimate interactions on a regular basis.

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

Good things come to those who sweat.

I'm a clean freak and a germaphobe - I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.

I dont have to look up my family tree because I know that Im the sap.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.