“My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.” PeopleWritingWholeSongGoalCan DoAbilityKnowingRecordsInspireRelateJust OneSongwriters Author:Kate Voegele
“Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.” PeopleBookSometimesWholeFilmCan DoTalking Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.” WorldBookWholeDreamCan DoPerspectiveLiftsNew WorldBorrowingNew Perspective Author:Dave Kellett
“Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.” GivingSoulWholeInspirationFaithCan DoGreaterDutyBearsHolyMassGloryCrossesStrongerCatholicSaintDevotionYour SoulProfitableGlory Of God Author:Peter Julian Eymard
“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.” MeanWholeEarthUsedArtistBlackCan DoModernIvoryPalettePompeii Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.” IfsThinkingWholeAbleIndividualCan DoImagineRiskWeaponsHarmNuclearEnormousIsolatedNuclear WeaponsLunaticCivil Society Author:Joshua Lederberg
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.” ThinkingWantFeelsWellsKindArtI CanWholeRunningArtistCan DoBuiltArroganceSpectrumMinimalismI Can Do ItClassical Art Author:Sylvester Stallone
“When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.” ThinkingMenWorldKindEndsWholeDesireCan DoWalksInterestingSecretWorryActivityMen And WomenDelightActiveIntimacyInwardAffirmationDigestionDead EndsPromiscuousActive Life Author:Walter Lippmann
“It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.” WholeHappensCan DoWhole Life Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.” IfsBelieveWholeFightingWinningCan DoSunRoundsIncludingYou Can Do ItIf You BelieveBelieve You Can Author:Erin Brockovich
“Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.” WorldHas BeensWholeWisdomPoliticsCan DoJusticeEconomyViolenceCenturyLimitsConvictionWhole WorldTriumphLiberalismJustificationEmbarrassedCrudeBrazenInfertilityUnconcernedLawfulness Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingReasonWholeFilmLeftCan DoCreativeWorstI Want YouWorst ThingsBe CreativeMournLeft Out Author:Markus Zusak
“The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'” SaidWholeKidsCan DoEthicsPunkThey SaidLiteralDo It Yourself Author:Michael Stipe