Does Quotes

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I respect his talents, even as he does mine.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.