On My Way Quotes

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?

I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .

If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

For some people, the way that they're perceived by the outside world is not a priority.

With theatre especially, you don't want to do it unless you love it - there's no way you can pull it off, making people happy, making yourself happy for 12 weeks or whatever.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.

To me, the most poetic and intelligent way to bring up a subject is by showing very simply who you are and what you believe in.

Find your heart, and you will find your way.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.