Way Quotes - Page 467

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Never gamble without knowing a back way out.

We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.

I remember when I was younger, there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever saw me coming. I suppose he was in love with me and wasn't quite sure of himself. Well, c'est la vie!

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways.

When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.