Elizabeth Hay Quotes
Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?
Quotes to Explore
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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Where do they come from, these things that say more than we know and more than we intend?
