We Are Not Quotes

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Remember: You're not alone.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

We hear things, but we can't always see them, or, even if we do see them, we're not sure that we're seeing correctly. Hence: Invisible.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

I am not afraid of the word tension.

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you’ll have to let me know. I’d like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I’m not sure which.

I feel like if we're blessed enough to be given talent, to be given an opportunity, then why not take that opportunity and make it for someone's betterment you know?

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.