Far Quotes

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.

I've been through a lot as far as love.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I don't think you ever think that you have made it but I did take a look at myself one day and think back to when I was a little girl and it was nice to know that I had at least made it this far.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.