Comes Quotes

Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.