H.F. Stewart Quotes

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

Ive got Arabic music in my blood.

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.

We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

People say I have a picture perfect life, and I do

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.

I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

My God, I'm so in love with my boyfriend.

I kind of like to look like a hobo.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.

The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.

You find in life that there are different levels of being in love with someone, and maybe everyone doesn't find that undeniable, indescribable... I can't describe it, it's indescribable.

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but it'll be okay. The most interesting things happen after making mistakes.

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

Democrats - always standing up for what they later realize they should have believed in.

Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

Sarah Palin has been tagged and released back into the wild.

9/11 references are like Lay's potato chips...no Congress can make just one.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

There's always anxiety when you start a new job, you're the one guy who doesn't know where the ketchup is.

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her to get the chance to pick out what I'm going to wear for eternity.