When it comes to atoms language can be used only as in poetry. The poet too is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Music is my life professionally for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

I would do anything for a part nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.

To this day my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power.

I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

My kids have moved more in their twenties you know than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost and that is a sense of community.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe however that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.