Behind Quotes

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.