How Quotes

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.