You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!

What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or lack of social engagement. Recent research suggests that autism can be detected during the first year of life, even before classic symptoms emerge. Indeed, the symptoms may be a late stage of autism.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.

The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

Georgia will find very little sympathy in coastal South Carolina for the costs it must incur to correct its reliance on an unsustainable resource.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.