Way Quotes - Page 655

All the heat should come my way

Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph

I live a very simple existence when I'm not on the road. Because when I'm on the road making a movie, I'm away from home.

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will not be necessary.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

All good things pass away.

Aschenbach is not only a projection of Mann in the obvious ways - same daily routines, author of the works Mann had planned - nor even in sharing his author's aspirations, doubts, and sexual identity. His watchword, "Durchhalten!" [persevere, keep going] could be Mann's own.

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from his writings on Mann.