Bill Hicks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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It gets late early out there.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.
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There are all kind of corners of the musical world that are deeply influenced by the Dead that one wouldn't expect. Lee Ranaldo is a crazy Deadhead.
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'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
Colson Whitehead -
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
