#hope

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#hope #leadership #leadership

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#blues #hope #i #i love #jazz

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

#cooperate #countries #created #environment #hope

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#either #hope #i #i write #read

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well. ↗

— Michael York

#comic #did #ever #everyone #four

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that. ↗

— Wayne Rogers

#conversation #eye #hope #interrupt #just

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions') ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life #story #trust #dreams

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#philosophy #writer #age

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

When things go wrong, don't go with them. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#hopelessness #life #perseverance #positivity #life