Being Quotes

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I don't think of myself as being tied.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

I like being absurd. Being silly.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.