Any Quotes

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.