Comes Quotes

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.