Way Quotes - Page 579

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer in ways to do things, I'd started from Dylan Thomas. As a screen dramatist he was a very intense visualist, with great timing and fluency.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.

Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

The media claimed to be non-partisan, centrist. It's not been that way for a lot of history.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.