Anything Quotes

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.