Wim Wenders Paris Texas Quotes & Sayings

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it? — Stephen King

Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems. — Melody Beattie

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. — Charles Lamb

My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing her political views. But, looking back, I wouldnt switch her for a normal mom, even though there were moments when Id come back from school and wish shed just be there in a gingham dress putting dinner on the table. I never had that. But now Im really glad I have her. — Natasha Richardson

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way. — Sherilyn Fenn

Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth. — Will Rogers

Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming. — Mitchell Hurwitz

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics. — Christopher Hitchens

Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts. — James C. Collins

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been. — Pierre Bayle

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Holms

But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
"These for their country fought and bled." — Philip Freneau

In the past, some people exist in pictures, some in words. I smile as among the photos I catch a glimpse of the black-haired, black-eyed boy who came as close as was possible, after you, to breaking my heart. He is best remembered as a visual: his smile, unbuttoned shirt, his tan. His words, pretty as they were, dissolved like the smoke rings he blew around them. — Joanna Barnard