Finding Quotes

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.