James Howard Kunstler Quotes
We're building our own New Jerusalem up the river. It's a world made by hand, now, one stone at a time, one board at a time, one hope at a time, one soul at a time.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
-
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
-
You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
-
I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
-
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
-
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
-
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
-
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
-
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
-
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
-
And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
-
I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
-
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
-
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
-
Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
-
I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
-
'General Turquoise Blue?' asked Arthur. 'I didn't make Suzy a general, did I? I remember her talking about it, but I don't remember actually...' 'She probably just put on the uniform,' said Dr Scamandros. 'No one would question her.'
-
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
-
I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.
-
Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
-
It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
-
We're building our own New Jerusalem up the river. It's a world made by hand, now, one stone at a time, one board at a time, one hope at a time, one soul at a time.
