These Quotes

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.