Doe Quotes - Page 259

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

George Lopez does so much mugging, I'm surprised he's not up on charges.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.