Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of ‘Aha!’ moments, and some which seem like ‘Aha!’ moments but turn out not to be. – Anthony Goldbloom
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
I’m not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it’s true, but I do have a sense of humor. – Alan Moore
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. – Barbara De Angelis
There are some moments where you’re so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you’re like, ‘Whatever. Bite me.’ I think all directors feel that way sometimes. – Catherine Hardwicke
I write about moments, and I don’t make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody’s come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions. – Brian McKnight
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. – Archibald MacLeish
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don’t really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. – Asghar Farhadi
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles. – Adam Sandler
Are you as much of a criminal if you don’t act when there’s a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in ‘Less Than Zero’ where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. – Bret Easton Ellis
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it. – Confucius
The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There’s a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they’re like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. – Brian Cox
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they’re writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive. – Adam Ross
No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are. – Aimee Teegarden
In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: ‘That must be nice.’ – Beth Ditto
I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people. – Colin Trevorrow
I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness. – Corey Hawkins
It’s not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don’t capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore. – Alex Ebert
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces. – Alexander Dubcek
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension – those moments in which character is forged and revealed. – Brad Stone
