George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
