Everything Quotes

"If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life"

Eddie Slovik, Soldier

"I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit"

Sam Ewing, Athlete

"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me"

Shaquille O'Neal, Athlete

"The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that"

Robert Caro, Writer

"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted"

Loretta Young, Actress

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this"

Vladimir Kramnik, Celebrity

"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end"

Jean Paul, Author

"I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else"

James A. Garfield, President

"My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything"

Bill Lee, Athlete

"I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"The man who has done his best has done everything"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful"

Alice Walker, Author

"We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Confidence is everything in this business"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource"

Al Gore, Vice President

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