Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.
Joe R. Lansdale
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
Ziggy Marley
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
Aaron Eckhart
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
Tariq Ramadan
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
Salman Rushdie
I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about … the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure. I came home and I asked my husband, I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.'
Dana Perino
How can art be realized?
Alexander Calder
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
Bernardo Bertolucci
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.
Brian Jacques
If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.
Christina Romer
Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
Marion Cotillard
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
Madame de Stael
When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.
Hamilton Leithauser
Black illusion is all I ever see.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
Christian Louboutin
I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.
Oprah Winfrey
The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.
Joe R. Lansdale