List of Topics starting with [Z]

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. ...

There's the physical world . . . but there's also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas ...

How's yours?" inquires Marv soon after. "Or more to the point, what is it?""Eggs and cheese and something.""Do you even like eggs?""No.""Then why'd you get ...

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation.""How do you figure?""They are still breathing, aren't they?

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about ...

Maybe it wasn't about being alone. Maybe the answer wasn't about hiding from those who wanted something, but about finding those who needed help but ...

If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability ...

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

I remember Mum repeatedly telling us we had good hearts and good brains. When she said that we'd say 'thanks' and it might have sounded ...

I'm a big fan of TV.

I'm ashamed to be German.

Walt Disney was a story man, and he knew that we were thinking story. That's why he dug us so much and he hired us ...

He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, ...

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

1970, someone repeated to him something that Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas had said: "Life is walking on the wire; the rest is waiting ...

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during ...

When you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows ...

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and ...

You can't really know who you are unless you understand where you came from.

A free choice is not really a free one unless the conditions surrounding it are also free.

I have never made statements like, 'I'm quitting TV' or 'I'm quitting Bollywood.' I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two.

It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now.

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

They understood that lasting pain could only be dealt at the root.

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else ...

I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who you'll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I ...

Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.

Let the winds come from the sea and blow seeds about, seeds of the north, south, east, and west. Let the moths beat their wings ...

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his ...

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of ...

I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already ...

But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am ...

No forgiveness for lies.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to ...

A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. ...

But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has been done here? Why was I so sorry ...

Big Z, little Z, what begins with Z? I do.I'm a zizzer zazzer zuzz, as you can plainly see.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, ...

It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.

Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and ...

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front ...

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel ...

You may be trying to claim the woman, his eyes said, but make no mistake, she and the fucking fireplace are mine.

Nothing doing. I've no doubt you think I should look noble as a sacrifice. But I've never wanted to look noble, and I won't be ...

The topmost parts of the source file should provide the high-level concepts and algorithms. Detail should increase as we move downward, until at the end ...

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Felicity," supplied her mother. "Am I right? Yes." She lifted one elbow and thumped a crutch hard against the floor so that the first Communion ...

When building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are ...

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

There are still a lotta nice Sicilian boys in New Orleans. (A nonna's advice to a zitella.)

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't ...

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love ...

What else makes you hot? You asking what makes me hot makes me hot.

You have to have diamonds in your soul to be happy.

Love John Wayne. I love his cowboy movies especially, which makes sense I guess. Rio Bravo may be my favorite.

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Something had happened to his entire body that was very much like what happens to the erectile tissue of his organ when a man is ...

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he ...

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Boy with a maiden's glance,I seek you out, but you hear not,Unknowing that you are the charioteerOf my soul.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves ...

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.

It's just amazing the lengths people go to, to be thought of as special.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

The time for your labor has been granted.

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His spirit

One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of existence, read a ...

I think before I actand then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

The total vacuity of world leadership thinking has lead to the practice of claiming to heal the world through politicising unviable theoretical means of finding ...

I struggled to hold her. It was not unlike holding a cat. Some wild, ninja, cat.