On The Way Quotes

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

In some ways, there's no typical day with all the shoots and travel and projects, but I do try and stop by my studio every day.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.

Most corporate decisions aren't going to meet the test of high validity. But they're going to be way above the low-validity situations that we worry about.

And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.

In my mind's eye, it seemed like the way it was supposed to happen.

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I've played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.

I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.

Love is not emotion, it's a way of being.

There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more that it can prove the existence of God.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.