Way Quotes - Page 452

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

When I see something I end up making a song about it and that's the way it is. There have been plenty of times when I've been in the studio and they were like, "Hey, why don't you make a song about such and such," and I just can't. I've gotta have it in my heart.

Way to go, New York. One people. One planet. One love.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.