Involved Quotes

I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

If you're involved in an accident and you're at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

When you involved in an accident and someone asks "are you alright?" Yes fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

She simply stood there and waited for him to show her the next move. And hoped it only involved sword fighting and not seduction.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve.

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.

I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

There’s a lot of pressure playing something that existed for so many years before you were involved, and already has a fan base. I approached it by doing it as well as I can.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

It's still a lean back, enjoy or a lean forward, be involved, enjoy medium. It's real engagement, real emotion.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things

My parents' divorce settlement involved a bar tab.

My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.