The law is reason, free from passion.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

We love things we love what they are.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Law, without force, is impotent.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I can dance to just about anything.

More law, less justice.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.