My Way Quotes - Page 35

• As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Thinking, Exhibitions, Lines

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• Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

  Klaus Schulze

  Sampling, Way, Changed

  Perfect Sound Forever Interview, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Awards, India

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• Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

  Sarah Shahi

  Cheerleading, Hollywood, Way

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• The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

  Paul Simon

  Records, Way, Company

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• I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

  Mark E. Smith

  Psychics, Way, Used

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• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Kindness, Men

  "Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return

  David Bowie

  Wise, Kings, Eye

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• I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

  Eric Weiner

  Thinking, Goal, Mind

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• Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven Will it be the same If I saw you in heaven I must be strong, and carry on Cause I know I don't belong Here in heaven Would you hold my hand If I saw you in heaven Would you help me stand If I saw you in heaven I'll find my way, through night and day Cause I know I just can't stay Here in heaven

  Eric Clapton

  Strong, Night, Hands

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• Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and my feet, Learn a little, here and there, Weep and laugh and sweat and swear, Hear a song, or watch a stage, Leave some words upon a page, Claim a foe, or hail a friend- Bed awaits me at the end.

  Dorothy Parker

  Song, Moving, Sweat

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

  Jim Henson

  Strong, Children, Cities

  "Fictional character: Sarah". Labyrinth, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

  Esmeralda Santiago

  Crazy, Doors, Worry

  Esmeralda Santiago (2009). “The Turkish Lover: A Memoir”, p.77, Da Capo Press

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• This is my vision-what I imagine I'll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Clouds, Light, Blue

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• I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

  Hugh Laurie

  Games, Way, Misery

  "A brighter life for Hugh Laurie". Interview with Amy Jory, www.standard.co.uk. June 13, 2002.

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• I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Way, Taste, Pomegranates

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• The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Eye, Brain, Teeth

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.121, Penguin

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• I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Father, Grieving

  Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

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• Kindle, isn’t it?” the waitress asked. “I got one for Christmas, and I love it. I’m reading my way through all of Jodi Picoult’s books.” “Oh, probably not all of them,” Wesley said. “Huh? Why not?” “She’s probably got another one done already. That’s all I meant.” “And James Patterson’s probably written one since he got up this morning!” she said, and went off chortling.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Book, Reading

  Stephen King (2015). “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Way, Return, Cinema

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• Catherine! Get out of my way. I need to have a word with that thing." Since she usually called Bones "filthy animal", I assumed "thing" meant Ian.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Animal, Needs, Way

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Heaven, Trying

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• If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Men, Crowds, Arms

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.

  Jean Rhys

  Long, House, Shadow

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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