On The Way Quotes

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.

The Sellout is about friends and relatives who have touched me in real ways.

It is a painful reminder that even the most well-intentioned among us sometimes act in ways that put children in danger of being abused or neglected.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.

Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

I think your typical high-school straight kid nowadays is not the straight guy of yesterday. I think he's way more open and accepting.

I'm going through the neutral zone and I've got a guy tugging me through the whole way, if I don't go down, I'm not going to get a call.

There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's vision for America.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.

While I read almost all my newspapers online, I'm not a big fan of e-books because I like to see what I've read and remember it. Books are a way of making memory physical.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

I've spent hundreds of days on commercial sets in the last ten years. If I didn't learn something along the way, I wasn't paying very close attention.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.