Over It Quotes - Page 31

• Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

  Jim Carrey

  Fire, Leap, Walks

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day.

  Matthew Barnett

  Giving, Important, Encounters

  Matthew Barnett (2011). “The Cause within You: Finding the One Great Thing You Were Created to Do in This World”, p.177, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Baby, Block, Book

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• Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Laughing, Hug

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• If you don't own a train company then you go and paint on one instead... it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something... that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

  Banksy

  School, Cities, Names

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• I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.

  Bella Thorne

  Thinking, Tough Times, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

  Viktoria Modesta

  Moving, Envy, Feelings

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• I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

  Christian Bale

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

  Judi Dench

  Theatre, Chance, Film

  "Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.

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• One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see any religious beliefs. A hero is a hero, whether you’re a man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white or red all over ― it doesn’t matter.

  Andrew Garfield

  Religious, Hero, Gay

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• Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Done, Might, Months

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.

  Jonathan Bowden

  Syphilis, Moral, Liberalism

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• When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

  Hannah Simone

  Sad, Breakup, Pretending

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Musical, Western Music

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• After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

  Phillip Noyce

  Children, Attitude, Real

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• All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Marriage, My Family, Get Over

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• Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

  Jeff Buckley

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

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• I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Self, Generations

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.91, Algora Publishing

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• The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

  Miranda Hart

  Painful Moments, Flip, Comedy

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• Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Humanity, Atheism

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.268

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• The prologues are over. It is a question, now,
  Of final belief. So, say that final belief
  Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

  Wallace Stevens

  Finals, Fiction, Belief

  'Asides on the Oboe'

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• If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

  Yogi Berra

  God, Running, Worry

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• Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

  Robert Benchley

  Morning, Coffee, Sunday

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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• 1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
  2. Get mad, then get over it.
  3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
  4. It can be done!
  5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
  6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
  7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.
  8. Check small things.
  9. Share credit.
  10. Remain calm. Be kind.

  Colin Powell

  Morning, Fall, Thinking

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.886, Ballantine Books

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• I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Morning, Moving

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.49, Penguin

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