Moments Quotes

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

Each moment presents what happens.

I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so they stay.

I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

One moment of magic, or one big moment to capture the match.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

The close games are usually lost, rather than won. What I mean by that is games are mostly won because of the opponent making mistakes during crucial moments.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.

I start thinking about the next movie before it's a success, so I can never have one moment of happiness or peace. I'm instantly thinking about the next one.