Been Quotes

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

I’ve never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

I thought he had been shot.

Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.

I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”