I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

It’s a little weird to have fans see pictures of us when we were little because it’s like, ‘Where’d you get that picture?’

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around. “Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see."

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.

I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

I love cooking but I still always go and sneak a little bit of sides from Boston Market, and it's so good. They're so good.

I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

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