Quotes About Progress

It's going to take generations of gay people marrying before these things start to feel natural. We haven't had it long enough to remake it as our own, so it does feel like you're getting dressed up in straight drag to do it.

I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Partly because of the way I write - I don't work with an outline or in a straight line. I work where I can see things happening, and so I get lots and lots of little bits to start with, and I'm doing the research at the same time.

The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.

None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

We have to straighten out our country; we have to make our country great again, and we need energy and enthusiasm.

Making new petroleum should be as simple and straightforward as brewing beer.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff.

Two hundred years ago, bathrooms didn't exist. The bathroom's development has not been a straightforward matter, and you might be surprised to learn that many Tudor people had worse personal hygiene than their medieval ancestors.

I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.