Moments Quotes

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.
Anne Lamott

Made, Others, Lives

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
David Frost

Power, Simple, Struggle

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
Erica Jong

Able, Seen, United

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
Winona Ryder

Peace, Alone, Book

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
Deborah Norville

Life, Good, Power

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
Muhammad Iqbal

Time, Nothing, Universe

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
Barry Levinson

Best, Happen, Small

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
Ralph Fiennes

Simple, Someone, Humanity

Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.
Mike Singletary

Life, Time, Person

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
Jessica Lange

Done, Thought, Before

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

Everything, Goes, Frightened

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
Pliny the Elder

Wise, Mortal, Moreover

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.
Flavor Flav

Live, Again, Able

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie

Happiness, Good, Someone

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.
Norah Jones

Music, Play, Learned

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Short, Put, Energy

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Erica Jong

Life, Love, Poetry

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.
Mike Krzyzewski

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.
Katherine Heigl

Away, Shy, Speaking

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.
Katherine Heigl

Feelings, Thoughts, Everybody

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

Personal, Act, Despair

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar

Heart, Soul, Put

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
Ivan Turgenev

Life, Feelings, Point

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
Lena Dunham

Deep, Place, Quite

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
Faith Evans

Sadness, Real, Person

I don't think I've had love at first sight. But,I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'
Josh Hutcherson

Love, Person, Different

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.
Michael Rapaport

Love, Age, Special

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
Julius Erving

Good, Personal, High

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.
Willa Cather

Kindness, Become, Place

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
Jason Schwartzman

Dating, Real, Person

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