Be There Quotes

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

The power of good film is being there in the moment.

Begin and you're halfway there.

Of course you want to do all the research that you can, but it's impossible to take a life and the boundaries of an hour and a half, so there is hope there will be understanding about that also.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

It's always nervewracking to put yourself out there. But it's the root of joy.

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

A person is only as fair to oneself as the people often hanging around him or her, here and there, truly care towards ones who are not personally or professionally related to them anywhere.

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

If there is a God, the King of kings, there is also a Kingdom. If there is a Kingdom, there must also be an army. Now the question is, are you in this army and are you willing to fight for your King?

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.

Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.

Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.