How Quotes

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.