On The Way Quotes

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

We all love privacy. We all care about public safety. And none of - at least people that I hang around with, none of us want back doors. We don't want access to devices built-in in some way.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

Tomorrow," Minho added. "Somehow, some way.

The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way."

Ronald Reagan's career was so unusual, so unprecedented, that this would be very interesting to learn, to gain understanding of his way of looking at the world.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.