Comes Quotes

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

Now comes the mystery.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

The drama nerd comes out in me when I'm in a theater.