How Quotes

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.