How Quotes

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.