Brian Shactman Quotes
I never pass a Dairy Queen without stopping. I cannot stand tucked-in sheets. I was once a contestant on 'The Price is Right.'
Quotes to Explore
-
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
-
I don't buy cars I can't drive.
-
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
-
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
-
Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
-
Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
-
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
-
You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.
-
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
-
This whole 'tired footballers' and three-games-a-week thing is an absolute myth.
-
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
-
I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.
-
The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.
-
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
-
Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.
-
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.
-
My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?
-
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
-
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
-
“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.”
-
I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.
-
I never pass a Dairy Queen without stopping. I cannot stand tucked-in sheets. I was once a contestant on 'The Price is Right.'
