“I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.”

“I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.”

“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”

“In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.”

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

“But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.”

“The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.”

“Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.”

“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”

“I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.”

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”

“House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.”

“We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.”

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

“In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.”

“I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.”

“If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.”

“I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?”

“If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.”

“I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.”