How Quotes

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 is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.