Everything Quotes

"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept"

"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something"

Barney Ross, Athlete

"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave"

John Milius, Director

"I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of"

Don Henley, Musician

"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me"

William Weld, Politician

"Life is to blame for everything"

Robert Musil, Writer

"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end"

Quintilian, Educator

"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will"

Paul Klee, Artist

"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it"

Quintilian, Educator

"I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it"

Nia Long, Actress

"Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, "Ugh, kids!" Maybe that will change when I get older"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time"

Fred Frith, Composer

"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did"

Mort Walker, Artist

"After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating"

Method Man, Musician

"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"For he who can wait, everything comes in time"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see"

Joan Jett, Musician

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

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