H. G. Wells Quotes
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
Quotes to Explore
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
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I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.
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There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
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Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.
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Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
