Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
-
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
-
I can only control what I can control.
-
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
-
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
-
There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
-
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
-
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
-
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
-
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
-
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
-
I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
-
Well, I'm a professional.
-
I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
-
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
-
One of the things I loved about working on 'Portal' was that we'd get emails from people saying, 'I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won't play them with me. But I got her to play 'Portal' and she had a blast.'
-
I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
-
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?
-
An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time.
-
Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.