Quotes About Getting Involved

#1. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#2. I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#3. They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

Michael Zaslow

#4. Emotional entanglements are messy. And if I don't get involved, I don't have to worry about getting hurt. -SHAYE

Gena Showalter

#5. There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

Bruce McLaren

#6. Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Patti Smith

#7. I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Twyla Tharp

#8. I do not get involved in the game to think that it is a future transition for me getting back into the ring. It was not my intention. I've stated many times that I did it for my son.

Bill Goldberg

#9. I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.

Matt Kuchar

#10. I mean, go figure. You prepare your home for an assault and you don't take zombies into consideration. I'd fallen victim to one of the other classic blunders, along with not getting involved in a land war in Asia and never going in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

Jim Butcher

#11. Getting involved with a victim was kind of like trying to find love on a reality show ... rarely successful.

Carla Cassidy

#12. I wouldn't mind getting emotionally involved with a woman.

Frank Bruno

#13. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Amy Winehouse

#14. Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

Daniel Pinkwater

#15. I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

Ellen Page

#16. Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

Cobie Smulders

#17. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#18. You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. [on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.]

Alexis Bledel

#19. I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

Michele Bachmann

#20. I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

Jules Shear

#21. I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.

David Arquette

#22. The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are
put simply
either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

Philip Carr-Gomm

#23. People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.

Poppy Inkwell

#24. One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.

Oscar Romero

#25. Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one.

Tim Pratt

#26. With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

Mark McGrath

#27. Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Eugene H. Peterson

#28. Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for our health; be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

Mahesh Babu

#29. I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

Robert Towne

#30. I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

Bill Gates

#31. I have tried insofar as possible to avoid getting involved in the sordid complications of human beings. I have been afraid of being sucked down into their bottomless whirlpool.

Osamu Dazai

#32. I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

John Hyams

#33. Getting involved with someone was complicated enough, but with the boss's daughter? Probably not a good idea.

Wendy Ely

#34. With my kids I have to get involved in the Scooby Doo games and the basic kid games that go on. I find myself getting on it more and more just because of my kids.

Jeremy Roenick

#35. Smart to avoid being with anyone she might actually really feel something for, who might actually really feel something for her. Smart to avoid getting involved with people she knew she could -

Stacia Kane

#36. She was too busy to think about getting involved with anyone. Even one of the sexiest men alive.

Samantha Chase

#37. If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Peter McWilliams

#38. Why would I become involved with something that doesn't include everyone? If you're getting married today, it's the equivalent of joining a country club that doesn't allow blacks or Jews.

Sarah Silverman

#39. You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

Bubba Sparxxx

#40. If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

Jonah Goldberg

#41. Get the intel, and then come back to Reno so we can cover you." He paused, his tone softening. "Getting involved in their Pack won't make you a hero, Luke, it'll make you a casualty.

Lisa Kessler

#42. There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Alex North

#43. I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

Abbey Clancy

#44. Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

Nancy Gibbs

#45. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Larry Bird

#46. She does not get eaten by the sharks at this time," my father said. I looked up at him. "What?" "You looked like you were getting too involved and bothered so I thought I would let you relax.

William Goldman

#47. I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

#48. I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Gordon Parks

#49. As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco [his son] I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

Guy Ritchie

#50. It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released.

Mick Taylor

#51. Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

Emily Giffin

#52. Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it's important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. - motivated by his faith - brought about an end to segregation in our country.

Frank Wolf

#53. You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Edward Norton

#54. As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life.

Benjamin Kunkel

#55. If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

Frank Deford

#56. Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control.

Pattie Mallette

#57. Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done.

Bethany Cosentino

#58. Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

Don DeLillo

#59. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

Elizabeth Lesser

#60. Who said anything about getting involved? I'm talking about some hot and heavy fucking. You and me and a king-size bed that I guarantee will be banging up against the wall in seconds flat once I lay you down.

Felice Stevens

#61. Clearly the American military has been a force for good for the United States. There's a reason we have a standing military. But there's something to be said for having a much smaller military because then we wouldn't be tempted to get involved in things we shouldn't be getting involved in.

Michael Hastings

#62. We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

Jim Messina

#63. Amelia's temperature dropped and all of a sudden, she felt cold as ice. Why were they getting involved? She had enough problems without

Ashley Stoyanoff

#64. Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.

Russell Simmons

#65. They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

John Irving

#66. I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

Eric Church

#67. If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

Nate Ruess

#68. I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.

Birch Bayh

#69. We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

William Hague

#70. Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry - banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up,

David Byrne

#71. Because falling in love, even when it's unrequited, is not something that happens to only one person. The other person can't help getting involved, whether they like it or not.

Kate Le Vann

#72. My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.

Howard Schultz

#73. I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.

Marina Keegan

#74. I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out ... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

Michael Heisley

#75. The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

#76. And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that's certainly isn't what God intended.

Katherine Harris

#77. Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.

Edy Ganem

#78. He feared what getting involved with her might mean, but he wanted this deal involving chocolate and would risk lying with something not entirely female to get it.

M. Pax

#79. The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

Val Kilmer

#80. I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.

Dennis Christopher

#81. I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

Carrie Fisher

#82. I don't get involved with people because quite frankly most people aren't worth getting involved with. I don't need somebody to complete me, be the other half of me or any of that freaky shit.

L.P. Lovell

#83. Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

Steve Martin

#84. Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#85. I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

David Boreanaz

#86. There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?

Margaret Mahy

#87. So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

Benjamin Carson

#88. My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Iman

#89. I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.

Lindsey Davis

#90. Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Max Lerner

#91. I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

Annie Lennox

#92. Today, you'll have a following for a film before it even hits theaters. We can reach out and touch our audience in ways that they couldn't. So it's about getting eyes, getting interest, and getting people involved.

Lena Waithe

#93. Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.

Noam Chomsky

#94. There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier.

Peter Kinderman

#95. One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

Walter Kirn

#96. There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

Jo Bonner

#97. I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

Steve Albini

#98. Normal was in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes the path to happiness involved bushwhacking and slicing and carving it until it yielded to individual desires. It wasn't simple, and there was no getting through it unscathed from the bleeding prick of thorns along the way.

Darien Cox

#99. There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.

Mark Consuelos

#100. There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound to dominate one literature better than another. But I do see it as one of the ways forward for the future. I think it is a very important approach.

John Elliott