How Quotes

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.