Then Quotes

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.