Sam Quotes

We tend to find what we look for in other people.

The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

There are no short hitters on the tour anymore - just long and unbelievably long.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.

Everybody has a problem, is a problem, or lives with a problem.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

You have more potential than you think.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

You can learn from everybody.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

If you want to get along, go along.

Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about...

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.