I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

Spesso la gente non ha le emozioni chiare, altro che le idee.

Diego De Silva

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Revolutions go not backward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

Jim Benton

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

Shane Warne

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Luther Burbank

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Martin Luther

Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death

Mark Twain

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Thomas Henry Huxley

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Zach Braff