Kent Haruf Quotes
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
Quotes to Explore
-
Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
-
My first thought is always of light.
-
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
-
I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
-
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
-
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
-
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
-
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
-
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
-
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
-
I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.
-
At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
-
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
-
The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.
-
I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
-
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
-
I secretly want to shave my head.
-
My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
-
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.
-
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.
-
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.
-
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
