Quotes 4221 till 4240 of 6176.
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That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Middlesex (2003) 197 -
The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
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The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
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