Way Quotes - Page 603

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.

That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

I try to take interest in whatever comes my way. Another aspect of this is [that] if at the beginning it seems like something I don't want to do, I ask myself why I don't want to do this and why I feel this way. It's perhaps rooted in the fact that I'm trying to avoid something.

I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.

There were definitely Nazis who saw the error of their ways.

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.