Comes Quotes

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.

True contentment comes with empathy.

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard.