Way Quotes - Page 522

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction

You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.

Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.

I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.

The only way I'm keeping my hands off her is if I'm dead. Find another way to fix us.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

Indian Muslims have stayed very far away from Al Qaeda and the like; they have voted with their feet and stayed in the country, rather than going to Pakistan during partition. On the whole, they recognize that life is better for them in India than in Pakistan.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.