Samuel Pepys Quotes
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Quotes to Explore
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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Habit is Heaven's own redress:it takes the place of happiness.
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I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
