We Can Quotes

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry," we say you should never trust your gut.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

I can make no apologies for following my heart.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.

You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. And I can understand why you're angry, but you can't blame me. You can't hate me for taking your word.

Anything can happen in one day.

I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.

And, I believe that one of the most loving things you can do is prepare a meal for someone you love. None of which I know how to do!

I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

I don't really bust anybody publicly. It's much more efficient if I can impact the creators. So that's what we do. It's had a great impact.

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.

Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.