If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
Americans have a hard time writing moms. I'll get a script and everything's really great and well-drawn, but the mom is like stock footage, they go and get that out. They plug it in, this idea of "mother. " You could lift moms out of any script, no matter what the culture, what the neighborhood, what the economic status, and you could switch them around, and they'd be the same person. I think it's because most people don't really have a human idea, a specific life that they attach to who their mother was. Their mother was there for them, so it either gets deified, or the opposite.
There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life. . . Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.
I don't like to attach myself to material things.
As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking ourselves, how do we feel about the fact that our boyfriends, our husbands, our male partners might hire sex workers? They should have that conversation, but they shouldn't attach it to policy conversations that affect people.
I don't want to attach myself to everything.
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
It's funny how much you attach yourself to everyone around you when you film.
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me. . . I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it. . . I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
I believe [in God], and then there are times when I don't, because the nature of the universe tells me that I'm a fool to believe in something greater than myself. And then there are times when I'm absolutely in awe of the greatness of God, or whatever name you want to attach to whatever it is that's controlling our lives.
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.