Being Quotes

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

I went from being the Terminator to being the governator.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.