Sam Quotes

The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough.

Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond that, and kind of went wherever I wanted to go.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

It's hard to make a book episodic.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.