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Being Quotes


"I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young."


"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."



"I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter."


"It's really been a better situation for me being with the Crush than it would if I were with the Broncos because this has given me a lot more broad range."


"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."



"Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you."


"I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy."


"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."


"My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good."


"There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them."


"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."


"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."


"As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure."


"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."



"That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require."


"All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish."



"But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for."


"One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution."



"It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio."


"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."


"Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry."


"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."


"I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves."


"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."


"The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape."


"To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are."


"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."


"I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool."


"Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with."


"If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever."


"There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer."
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