Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is. – Sharon Creech
Post-production is kind of the death of hope. The money has been spent. The grand ideas are either there or they’re not there. So music oftentimes has to compensate if there are issues, or it has to stay out of the way if the movie is working really well. – Thomas Newman
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. – Stanley Kubrick
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. – Samuel Ullman
I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. – Sherwin B. Nuland
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit – the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal. – Theresa Breslin
I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn’t know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren’t making fun of Kylie. – Wayne Coyne
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. – William Butler Yeats
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good. – Story Musgrave
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don’t take counsel of your fears. – Thomas S. Monson
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the ‘New Annual Register,’ the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind. – William Godwin
Especially when you’ve become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place. – Thomas F. Wilson
Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you’re going to make it. But there’s a part of you that’s got to be realistic and say: ‘Look, it might not happen to me.’ – Sam Claflin
I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act. – Theo James
That’s why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It’s like a tonic. – Studs Terkel
My idea for ‘BoneMan’s Daughters’ came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry. – Ted Dekker
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you’re an immigrant, you know you’ll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way – being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension. – Sanjeev Bhaskar
A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don’t get fired. – Wes Craven
Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it’s OK, that you’re not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful. – Ze Frank
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future. – Siri Hustvedt
The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that… young people don’t have hope. – Sister Souljah
