Can Quotes
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me.
When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!
Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.
If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.
Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.
I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.
As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.
I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.
I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.
With confidence you believe you can overcome your weaknesses. With arrogance you don't even see your weaknesses.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true
What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
But really, I can only be dangerous for the team in one place, and that is in the box.
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.
My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'
Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do
The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
