Far Quotes

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.