Were Quotes

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.