Daniel Woodrell Quotes

Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

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• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Funny

• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Just

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Medical
  • Bankruptcy

• In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • City
  • Eyes
  • Lake

• I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Enough

• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Faith
  • Better
  • Place

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • War
  • Organization

• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Future
  • Energy

• You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Country
  • You
  • Feelings

• Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • War
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Politics

• Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Will

• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.

  

  Christine Flores
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Tired

• And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Eyes
  • Fence

• We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Culture
  • Education

• Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Horse
  • Gun