Barry Webster Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
-
I don't like allegories.
-
One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
-
Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
-
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
-
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
-
Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
-
If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
-
Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
-
There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
-
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
-
I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
-
I've always found the rain very calming.
-
I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
-
Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
-
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
-
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
-
The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.
-
Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
-
I loved experiencing city life in New York.
-
You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me." "Okay, I won't deny that. He's got that whole hard body, vampire magnetism going for him. But when I was young, I had a crush on Big Bird. That wouldn't have worked out either.
-
I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.
-
We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
-
Rocks are more co-operative than people.
