My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us – loneliness is one of them.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
It’s always great to engage with people. You never know who you can make an effect on. And I love interacting with the fans, hearing what they have to say and joking around with them. Anytime I can reach out online and give encouragement, motivate people, be a better citizen, that’s what it’s all about, man.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
I think I can always look back and say my mom and dad would have done this or suggested that in a particular situation. I just really feel blessed to have had them as parents.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That’s pretty much my principle.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean ’em inside and outside. I’m very touchy about cars. I don’t want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them.
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don’t know the stories, I make them up.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won’t be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that’s present.
