Moments Quotations | Page 3

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car.

I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it.

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards.

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

Being a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.