My Way Quotes

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

Faith guides even us and we follow its sure light on the way which conducts us to God and His homeland.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

I don't agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we're going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

I think the boy should pay. 'Cuz that's just the way it works on a first-date. But if he doesn't offer, then I will pay... and then just not go out with him again.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

Patriarchal life, you’re out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!

I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.