Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.Joe R. Lansdale
Quotes to Explore
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis -
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov -
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
Vanna Bonta -
I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
Odette Annable -
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
Gary Numan -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill -
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara -
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
Gavin Newsom -
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
Ikue Mori -
By and large my relations with the US were good.
Hans Blix -
I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
Kate McKinnon
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
Olivier Megaton -
I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
Yani Tseng -
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
Karen Allen -
Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
Edgar Wright -
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson -
I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
Samantha Bond
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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Douglas Coupland -
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost -
The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
Lynn Margulis -
Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.
Jeffrey Toobin -
Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
Napoleon Hill -
If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.
Joe R. Lansdale