519 quotes found
“If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.”
“I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.”
“I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!”
“You can spend the day at work, but when you go home, and you're in the role of a father or a husband, you don't have to remind yourself that you shouldn't tell your wife to hold the messages. If yo...”
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
“I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're ...”
“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”
“Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!”
“My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.”
“I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them f...”
“The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.”
“I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends ...”
“I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hou...”
“That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.”
“No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.”
“All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.”
“I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger fli...”
“Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.”
“And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.”
