Charles Portis Quotes

If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney with a mark on his face like banished Cain I would not undertake to advise others how to do it.

Charles Portis

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Poverty
  • Revolution
  • Mess

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Foundation

• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Complain

• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Body
  • Building
  • Hell

• There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • World
  • Stage
  • Which

• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Dream
  • Never
  • Dalai Lama

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Children
  • Hope

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Sell

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Today
  • Education

• My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!

  

  Zendaya
  • Man
  • Just
  • Crush

• I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Travel
  • Chicago
  • Racial

• I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Childhood

• One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Politics

• Yes, we as actors are so appreciative of our fans, but there comes a point where, if we've been working all day, we don't owe 100 percent of ourselves to anyone, and that shouldn't be expected.

  

  Lili Reinhart

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Country
  • Past
  • Birth

• Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Reality
  • Vision

• If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney with a mark on his face like banished Cain I would not undertake to advise others how to do it.

  

  Charles Portis