Done Quotes - Page 95

Emit gratitude as though it was done

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

Eva [Braun] loved [Adolf] Hitler and he was the only man in her life. She flirted and danced with other men but never would she have done more than that.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that's where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.

But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future.

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

If you have a sweet tooth, you'll have a sweet mouth when you're done, because all your teeth are going to be sweet.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.

Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.

I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

They look at me, and you can see they're looking at a ghost. They were all getting the K. C. Jeebies hardcore. Dave said, "She is so much like Kurt." They were all talking amongst themselves, rehashing old stories I'd heard a million times. I was sitting in a chair, chain-smoking, looking down like this [affects total boredom]. And they went, "You are doing exactly what your father would have done."

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.