And Quotes

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Yeah, well, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, then we’d never go hungry. (Syn)

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.