Doe Quotes
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?
Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
I've learned a lot about putting a show up in Vegas. You can't just all of a sudden put up a show here and do well. Nobody does.
How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.
The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.
Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.
The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.
No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.
Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.
I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
The sage does not act and therefore does not fail, does not seize and therefore does not lose.
Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.
Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.