Just Quotes

You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Theater is just so much more satisfying than film or television just because you deliver the whole thing from start to finish in one evening, and you can tell if people have enjoyed it or not. That's great to do every night to go in front of a full room of people and tell the story. There's nothing like that really.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.