Has Beens Quotes - Page 18

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

Materials are very important to me, and always have been.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.