Comes Quotes

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Life comes full circle.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.