Were Quotes

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

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.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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.