Way Quotes - Page 656

We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle - just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.