David Morrell Quotes

In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

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• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Job
  • Books
  • Library

• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Actor

• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Great
  • Action
  • Revolution

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Huge
  • Pie
  • Slice

• I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • America
  • Past

• My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Child

• It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our services like this and that, and we celebrate the sacraments like this and that.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Church
  • Easy
  • Week

• I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • TV

• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

  

  Omar Epps
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.

  

  Valerie Solanas

• '…My name…is Mahalingam….is Sanskrit for ‘large or great or mighty generative organ’ - this, of course, having more a religious (through associations of religion and fertility) significance than an anatomical one. Though anatomically and…socially the name has not proved inept.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Great
  • Religious

• To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Game
  • Chess

• I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• I think it really comes down to, it doesn't matter if it's a girl or man, it's about if you have something to say, it's about the music, you know?

  

  Maria Brink
  • Music
  • Think
  • Something

• I've learned never to count Vin Diesel out. Just don't do that. And I guess it's because he is a very smart guy. Smarter than people give him credit for.

  

  David Twohy
  • People
  • Guy
  • Smart

• A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Happy
  • Drama
  • Smart

• In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.

  

  David Morrell