Haven Quotes

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.