Use Quotes - Page 194

I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image - choosing not only the right words but down to the right number of lines. I remember being in Maine once at Colby College with Alex Katz. It houses hundreds of his works. There was a painting of just one seagull against a blue sky. I was admiring it and Alex said, "45 brush strokes exactly."

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be naked because I don't like how I look naked. And - no, no. I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. So I could have a lot more trappings of wealth if every time I had 20 extra dollars I didn't pay off more of the mortgage.

Remember: People who live in glass houses can see you masturbating in their bushes.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.