Quotes About Author

Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.

When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.

If you want to do 'Sword & Sandals' movies, people think that means it equals 'epic.'

My 22-minute film, which I called 'The Sword and the Flute', turned out to be a romantic film about India made by someone who had never been to India, but who already had very romantic feelings about everything Indian.

I don't generally give interviews unless I have to promote a play and had sworn years ago, having been bitten once too often, never to be interviewed by a woman again.

When I was sworn into office, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and I take that responsibility very seriously.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

I write in a mathematical manner. For some of my songs, I rhyme every syllable. It's a science.

Bellator wouldn't be who they are without my performances and Michael Chandler wouldn't be who he is without Bellator promoting him and us having a phenomenal symbiotic relationship.

Everything I write is meant to share what I'm struggling with. I hope that it helps other people. I benefit from that a great deal because I always hear new ideas from my readers. It's a very symbiotic relationship.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I'm flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion - if I've had a nice bottle of Beaujolais - I can imagine myself really being one.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.