Marian Anderson Quotes

There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

When you're in the center of something, on a ride, I don't think you realize what it is until it's over.

I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, "Wow, I was destroying myself." But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.

It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's important? Dealing with the moment of a different kind of feeling for mortality. Shifting of the body. Contextualizing or reevaluating behaviors and values. All those kinds of things.

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.