Easy Quotes

"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"Dancing came easy to me"

Hedda Hopper, Actress

"It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice"

Melanie Griffith, Actress

"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime"

Elizabeth II, Royalty

"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express"

John Astin, Actor

"Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"I was not an easy kid"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young"

Kim Elizabeth

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy"

Ron Silver, Actor

"Striking out batters was easy"

George Herman, Journalist

"I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek"

Roselyn Sanchez, Model

"I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it"

Lilli Palmer, Actress

"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film"

John Boorman, Director

"If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up"

Lou Gerstner, Businessman

"Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject"

Byron White, Judge

"I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had"

John Schlesinger, Director

"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy"

Dan Gable, Athlete

"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart"

Al Pacino, Actor

"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"

Lao Tzu, Author

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small"

Lao Tzu, Author

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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