I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Saving was slow and painful.

Nature was my kindergarten.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

The blues the sound of a sinner on revival day.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.

People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

When December comes can The Nutcracker be far behind No it cant not in America anyway.

If God sends us on strong paths we are provided strong shoes.

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.

I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the routine that keeps your body the healthiest, and that's what I do - I don't change it for a swimsuit shoot. You have to figure out what works with your body the best.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.