Some Quotes

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.