How Quotes

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

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.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

My mother taught me how to write.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.