Way Quotes - Page 606

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.

I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people to choose - forced Jews, let's say, and Muslims to choose conversion to Christianity or death. I wanted to see how much of conversion historically was forced in that way and how much of it was really a kind of persuasion.

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.

It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.

Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.

A long way of saying I've seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you're still seeing out there now.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.