The true grandeur and excellence of a prince ... does not consist in honors, in gold, in purple, and other luxuries of fortune, but in prudence, wisdom and knowledge.
It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.
It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.
When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.
Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.
I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
I have worked with a lot of kids. Most of them have been really lovely. But there are a lot of trappings.
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
Chefs get sucked into the trap of 'fine dining' because some guides make it central to their ratings system and because some customers have been trained to focus their expectations on the trappings and not on the food. It's all a gigantic waste of energy.
Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
