Comes Quotes

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

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

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.