I. H. Richardson Quotes

We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.

What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here.

it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.

Our press is the most disgusting in the world.

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

It's difficult to keep in touch with someone when you're moving around all the time. I've decided that you can have it all, but you can't have it all, all of the time.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

When youre in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Love is not a volunteer thing.