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.

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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
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Me

• Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Film

• 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
  • Giving
  • Environment
  • Step

• I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Risk

• Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Red

• It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Funny
  • Actor

• 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
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• How can art be realized?

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Art

• A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Trying
  • Democracy

• 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
  • Children
  • Imagination

• 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
  • High
  • Powerful
  • Competition

• Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Live
  • Respect

• I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • Motivated

• The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Scary

• I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

  

  Emma Bell
  • Life
  • Deep

• Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

  

  Brian Baumgartner

• I'm an old cynic.

  

  Margot Kidder

• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  

  Alan Vega
  • Country
  • Die
  • Famous

• We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Feeling

• It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

  

  Queen Christina
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Rule

• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Past

• 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