A Quotations

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

I like being able to be a man.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.

I love every second of being a mom.

It's very rewarding if I make a difference to a kid.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

If you care enough, you make a difference.

I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

I don't really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Arent people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.