Quotes About Meaningful

Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.

we will never become the men we are called to be unless we learn the art of friendship and intentionally cultivate deep, meaningful, rowdy relationships with other men.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

I can't abide small talk.

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.