My Way Quotes

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want.

No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

People are receptive in the best way when they are together enjoying themselves in a club; with others who are on the same wavelength. Then the experience becomes a very creative and spiritual thing.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way.

I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.