Anthony Quotes

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Failure is impossible.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Everybody in America is angry about something.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

You can do anything you put your mind to. I don't care what situation you're in.

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.

As long as you stay true to yourself and to who you are, you ain't in nobody's way.

I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

You're never too young to die.

I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

See how special you are? I serve you coffee in the parlor.