Been Quotes

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.