Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value..

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, ….

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook..

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens ag….

I think when I feel fear, thats often a cue that I should do something. If I begin to feel fear, thats a strong sign, psychologically, that something….

If you are able to settle, you'll be getting off rather easy. Debt settlement companies can sometimes get you off the hook for a large percentage of ….

I think my love of science comes from an interest in wanting to understand the world and wanting to understand our place in it. If I can hook, and re….

Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler….

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate..

The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby..

I think David Yates was just like, "You've got on with it for a few years, I'm gonna let you off the hook." And also, I think it's because the action….

Captain Hook's mother, who said to Little Hook, For God sakes, don't scratch it! Never got a dinner!.

I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving be….

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure..

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness..

If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him a….

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators,….

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take t….

Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot..

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into ….

Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a ve….