On My Way Quotes

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I've always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet, but when you come, I'm going to f*** you the way I need to. The way I've been dreaming about since the moment I saw you.

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

He wasn't just masculine and sexual, he was carnal in a set-your-teeth-on-edge kind of way; he was almost frightning.

If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

The way I talk is bizarre.

I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught

A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

If my music doesn't fit, I understand, ... If I'm to play my music, that's the way it's gonna be.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.

I don't feel I'm a diva in any way, but, like, I just can't bring myself to reuse eyelashes. I think it's gross. And so I only use them one time. Is that bad? I feel like it's bad!

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Megan could have kissed him. If there weren't a million obstacles, both physical and psychological, in her way, of course.

I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.