I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
You build up coming out to this horrible moment. It’s so stressful, there’s so much adrenaline, and there’s so much primal fear – even though I know my parents to be good people – that they’re going to reject you.
When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumstances, you are part of their lives for that moment. You inhabit their lives, and you feel what they’re feeling, and that is compassion. If we see that reading does allow us that, we see how absolutely essential reading is.
We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
For every moment of concentration there is an equal moment of relaxation.
I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It’s not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I’ll do it because it’s a moment that will stick with me forever.
The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
Let’s assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington – as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the ‘Every President Gets a Trophy’ ethos?
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
You can’t let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.
With ‘Taxi Driver,’ I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn’t me.
A few years ago I was participating in a comedic ‘Inner Beauty Pageant’ and I had to figure out a talent very last-minute. I always loved Tyra Banks’s ‘We were all rooting for you!’ moment, and so I decided to lip-sync live to the six-minute entirety of it as my talent.
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure of the moment, ever.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
When something’s really significant, whether it’s good, bad, ugly, I like being able to look back at a moment in time that was high-emotion. Whenever I’m crying I like, weirdly, to document it.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
You don’t have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
I’m extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It’s a special moment in my career.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
We take off sometimes for impromptu vacations the moment Mahesh is free, and I join him even if I have work.
Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there’s a shot from the bumper of a car and it’s going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It’s crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone’s perception of the band.
I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it’s doing a couple things: it’s empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it’s also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we’re a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.
I’d say it was always in me – it’s just what’s required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you’re part of a team, you defer, and you’re there to support your leader.
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Atletico know I have a special feeling for the team. I lived the best moment of my career there.
Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.
