M.V. Carey Quotes

The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Jesus was a management expert too.

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

If you're walking down the street in L.A., people do sort of look at you like you're a hooker because it's so rare to see someone just walking.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

I've always had a tomboy look.

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

I worked for some very good people who have helped me along the way and actually enabled me to have the opportunity to be selected to join the Astronaut Corps.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?