Getting Quotes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

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.

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.

Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.