Over You Quotes - Page 17

I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

In general, being independent is so liberating, you get to create without someone looking over your shoulders.

Because you don't belong with him! I tried to tell you that, but you wouldn't listen, and I thought if you understood that he'd be better off without you, you'd break up with him for his own good. So I...exaggerated how easy it'd be for him to get over you, with Sabine there to step in. But I underestimated how incredibly stubborn you are" "I prefer to think of it as dedication..." I mumbled.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall. "Love you, too, jackass!

It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.

Running from fear only strengthens fear-you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

With voice-over, you have to pretend like youre three, except you can talk and read.

I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.

You are NOT a financial failure if you rent. You are getting something for your money. A roof over your head.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again.