Daniel Woodrell Quotes

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

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• But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Link

• I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Single
  • Ferrari
  • Mercedes

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Compassion

• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

  

  Maimonides
  • Poverty
  • Charity
  • Anticipate

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• That's hot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Hot

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• I don't know that white people need to be 'allies' so much as understand that any black struggle in America is ultimately a struggle for the large country. 'Ally' presumes a kind of distance that I am not sure exists.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Snow

• After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Family
  • Myself

• People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Music
  • Dance

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Vicious

• All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Death
  • Day
  • Criticism

• Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Work
  • You

• I'm trying to get out of my own way.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Trying

• I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.

  

  Alexander Downer
  • May

• I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • Why
  • Sports
  • Dance

• Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, 'Hey...' (pantomimes hitting his son) 'We don't hit'. He looked at me like, 'Here's your sign, Dad'.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Friend

• Calms appear, when storms are past,Love will have its hour at last.

  

  John Dryden
  • Past

• There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Sweet
  • Realist