You want the listener to find the song on their own, give too much away and it takes away from the imagination.
My father died in 1960. He was an intellectual. . . . She made the money and he read a lot. He wasn’t successful or ambitious. He spoke lots of languages. There were times that kids said to me, ‘What does your father do?’ and I had to make something up because I actually didn’t know what he did.
I Shall Return!
A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
I remember when we were talking to one of the executives at the BBC. And he said, ‘Now hold on, this man (David Brent) is so incompetent why wouldn’t he be fired?’ and I said ‘Go and take a look around this building. Just go and knock on a few doors.’
Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
[a metaphor for the end of her marriage] The process of divorce is about loading a blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.
It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
What was never lost can never be found.
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Accept the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
