Way Quotes

I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.