Everything Quotes

"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said"

Kevin Nealon, Actor

"Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time"

John Hartford, Musician

"Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation"

Gloria Estefan, Musician

"The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons"

Will Cuppy, Writer

"My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily"

Harry Browne, Writer

"Civility costs nothing, and buys everything"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow"

Leo Szilard, Scientist

"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils"

Amy Lowell, Poet

"I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff"

John Tesh, Musician

"I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment"

John Mayer, Musician

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh"

John Singer Sargent, Artist

"Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports"

Joan Cusack, Actress

"You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders"

Gary Cole, Actor

"We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it"

Kim Gordon, Musician

"My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far"

Kelly Hu, Actress

"Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything"

Julia Cameron, Author

"I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation"

Brian P. Cleary, Author

"When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again"

Rider Strong, Actor

"I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape"

John Grisham, Writer

"Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I think everything depends on money"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"Everything else outside me seems far, far away"

Meg White, Musician

"Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant"

Jackie Weaver, Actress

"The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it"

Daniel Barenboim, Musician

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