I think I always play good, always played solid.

I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She’s just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

A hole can be as real and solid as a boulder or a tree.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope—nothing of man

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.