I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita ' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation the expansion of women's rights or now gay rights I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Well the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and if you're not willing to confront failure you can never find out how good you are.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and actually whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Each year I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles the neutrons revitalize.

At first dreams seem impossible then improbable and eventually inevitable.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible then they seem improbable and then when we summon the will they soon become inevitable.

You know I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Of course we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept to truly feel it... that's different.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

You can cry about death and very properly so your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable but it has always been inevitable if you see what I mean.

Death is inevitable but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death and to deny one is to deny the other.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

As a father you immediately become uncool especially the older they get. The older you get it's inevitable that as cool as you think you are you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.