Famous Quotes
- When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
- Jack White on Hope
- When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
- Jason Reitman on Hope
- Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.
- Demi Lovato on Hope
- Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver on Hope
- Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
- Michael Morpurgo on Hope
- Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.
- Martha Beck on Hope
- While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
- Bryant H. McGill on Hope
- While there's life, there's hope.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Hope
- Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
- Tom T. Hall on Hope
- White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
- Idris Elba on Hope
- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
- Friedrich Schiller on Hope
- Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
- Henry Miller on Hope
- With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
- Studs Terkel on Hope
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
- Joseph Conrad on Hope
- Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
- John James Audubon on Hope
- Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
- Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
- Anne Stevenson on Hope
- Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
- Joyce Carol Oates on Hope
- 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.
- Kate Middleton on Hope
- Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
- Charles M. Schulz on Hope
- You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
- Elizabeth Edwards on Hope
- You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.
- Johnny Vegas on Hope
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson on Hope
- You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
- Wendell Phillips on Hope
- You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
- Fran Lebowitz on Hope
- You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
- Stephen King on Hope
- You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
- Charles Ives on Hope
- You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.
- Melissa Rosenberg on Hope
- You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
- You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
- Tony Kushner on Hope
- You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
- Jack Nicklaus on Hope
- You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
- You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
- Hugh Laurie on Hope
- You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
- Jon Stewart on Hope
- You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
- Mike Huckabee on Hope
- You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
- Diablo Cody on Hope
- You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
- Sharron Angle on Hope
- You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
- Marlon Wayans on Hope
- You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
- Michelle Obama on Hope
- You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
- Cameron Diaz on Hope
- You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
- Daniel H. Wilson on Hope
- You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
- Camille Claudel on Hope
- You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
- Knute Nelson on Hope
- You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
- Andrew Bird on Hope
- You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
- Keanu Reeves on Hope
- Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
- Desmond Tutu on Hope
- Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
- Moon Unit Zappa on Hope
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
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