How Quotes

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.