On My Way Quotes

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.

When in doubt, wear white. I think white is a very important color just spiritually, and I think when you're feeling that way white is a great color to wear.

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want

Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

The only way that a mother would go after her own children is if she's just completely gone and has no humanity.

I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I do feel pressure to look a certain way but am fighting that and focusing on being comfortable in my own skin exactly as it is.

The only way to being a better teacher is time and dedication.

What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.