Alfred Worden Quotes

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

Alfred Worden

• Home
• Earth
• Look Back

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great

• You're the pain in my - The hurricane in my - Supersensitive heart, dear. Still I love you, I know, And the reason is merely because You irritate me so!

  

  Cole Porter
  • Heart
  • Pain

• That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Fear

• I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We all are so serious when we are younger.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Serious

• Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Ego

• If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Age

• 'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Path

• Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Beautiful
  • Helping
  • Lying

• I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

  

  Steve Forbert
  • Ideas
  • Goals
  • motivation

• I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.

  

  Cam
  • Home
  • Car
  • Tough

• Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

  

  Alfred Worden
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Look Back