People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
You couldn't make 'Heaven's Gate' today. Even were you to quadruple the resources to make the movie, you couldn't make it because the people don't exist.
When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.
When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate.
There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.
