How Quotes

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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.

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.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.

How young can you die of old age?

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?