Behind Quotes

I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.