Way Quotes - Page 559

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.

I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

Art is nothing; it's a way.

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.