Quotes About Reflection

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

You learn a lot about yourself doing physical work.

Moe's the first character that I played that actually allowed me to embrace all parts of myself, including my physical appearance, the things that make me angry, the things that I would consider quirks or little things that make me funny. I still carry those things that I learned from Trinkets to this day.

The entire experience of 'Sonali Cable' has been beautiful. It has been a long journey for me, both physically and emotionally and a great learning experience.

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

The album 'Physicist,' I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that's probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it.

I need physics more than friends.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.