Way Quotes
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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
C. S. Lewis -
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'
Reg E. Cathey
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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.
Lao Tzu -
I kind of got inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.
Eliot Paulina Sumner -
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Joanne Rowling -
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.
Seth Meyers -
The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
We each have our own way of expressing ourselves. I just think that life gives us things, situations— people— to make us see how much we have to learn . . . how much we need to remember to stay humble and realize we are just like children. We don't know everything.
Barbara Cameron
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I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.
John Haley Sims -
I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
Catherine Mary Stewart -
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost -
Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Epictetus -
One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Stephen Ambrose -
Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth
Benjamin Wiker -
No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.
Whitley Strieber -
Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.
Amy Richards -
Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
Erica Jong -
... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.
Barack Obama
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The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.
Lao Tzu -
It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?
Joanne Rowling -
My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
Sigmund Freud -
There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.
Sarah Dessen