Been Quotes

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.