Anyway Quotes
More Anyway Quotes
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump— 1989 In Time,16 Jan.
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.
steve biko— On Death
He had developed his own limited, or very simple style. He was never very keen on improving himself as a bass player and half the time I would play bass on the records because I would tend to do it quicker. Right back to those early records; I mean, at least half the bass on all recorded output is me anyway. … Rog used to come in and say, "Thank you very much" to me once in a while for winning him bass-playing polls.
david gilmour— On Roger Waters, as quoted in Rock Compact Disc (September 1992)
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
harper lee— Pt. 1, ch. 11
— Atticus Finch
We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
meg white— Jarmusch, Jim (2003). "The White Stripes: getting to know the most interesting band in music today" FindArticles.com (accessed June 6, 2006)
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.
mark twain— Ch. 13. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889))
according to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years ... I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right.
pat condell— YouTube video, 2007-08-17, from YouTube, transcript
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
walt disney— American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer (1901 - 1966)
Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.
jim butcher— Harry Dresden, Chapter 6
The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. "I don't believe in faeries!"
jim butcher— Character: Harry Dresden, Chapter 31
Once a paper admits any principle of censorship for survival, the we-don't-want-to-do-it-but-we-don't-want-to-lose-the-printer kind of censorship, it jeopardizes the integrity of its editorial principle. It's better to print and be damned, because you'll be damned anyway.
Germaine Greer— "The million-dollar Underground" (July 1969), p. 15
I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar (to me, anyway). Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.
elizabeth hand— "Elizabeth Hand on Mortal Love at HarperCollins (2004)
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth— As quoted in "The Doyenne of the Drawing Room" in The New York Times (23 August 1981)
What is that white dot anyway?
rik mayall— hahaha you sod.
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.
hunter s. thompson— Pageant (July 1968)
The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
harry s. truman— Letter to Mary Jane Truman (14 November 1947)
“You're such a liar.” “But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend. “I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.”
orson scott card— Chapter 10 (Alvin Journeyman (1995))
The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one."
harry chapin— Flowers are Red
Guyana-Cult of the Damned has crawled out from under a rock and into local theaters, and will do nicely as this week's example of the depths to which people will plunge in search of a dollar. The movie is a gruesome version of the Jonestown massacre of 1978, so badly written and directed it illustrates a simple rule of movie exhibition: If a film is nauseating and reprehensible enough in the first place, it doesn't matter how badly it's made - people will go anyway.
roger ebert— Review of Guyana-Cult of the Damned (January 29, 1980)
A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.
robert jordan— Uno Nomesta (The Fires of Heaven (15 October 1993))
She was not a pretty little porcelain doll; she was a beautiful little porcelain doll. On the outside, anyway. Inside, where it counted, was another matter.
robert jordan— Siuan Sanche, referring to Moiraine
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant tills it.
Gertrude Stein— Ch.2 (Afterword of a later edition)
You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.
alicia witt— "Anyway"
And, anyway, what sort of new Macedonian nation can this be when we and our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have always been called Bulgarians?
— Krste Misirkov, "On Macedonian Matters", Macedonian Review Editions 1974, (Sofia 1903)
You are all soon going to die anyway.
— Who: Victor Zakhaev
— Note: Spoken in non-subtitled Russian before committing suicide by self-inflicted gunshot under the chin to avoid capture by the SAS and the USMC.
But aesthetics is not religion , and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
— Rudolf Otto, in Autobiographical and Social Essays, p.73
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
— Lev Yilmaz in an interview with Matt Baume|Matt Baume of “The San Francisco Appeal” in Interview: Tales of Mere Existence’s Lev Yilmaz
anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force that you can zip in when you're at war and zip out again afterwards but to Be Mothers, to form the coming generation, to give birth to them, to nurse them, to mop floors for them, to love them, cook for them, clean for them, change their diapers, pick up after them, and mainly sacrifice themselves for them. This is the most important job in the world. That’s why they don’t pay you for it.
joanna russ— Part 7, Chapter 1 (p. 137)
