Jim Steinman Quotes

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

I want to complete every ball. It's impossible, but that is what I want to do. And that is why I work hard at it.

Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a career, attend the weddings of their children, or be honored in old age.

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

My father ruined me for men. Not many can live up to him.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

There ain't no Coupe Deville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.