Moments Quotes - Page 108

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

I push my own limits every day, every moment - in the studio, on the stage and beyond so it's truly a genuine fit.

We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was about to fall apart. You can't really do that with a novel, but with a story you're just left hanging.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.