Harvey Penick Quotes

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber.

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.