Doe Quotes
I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.
The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens
Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!
Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?
The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.
I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.
The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.
The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.
Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.
The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination?
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.
It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.