Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

Joe R. Lansdale

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• When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Short
  • Early

• The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Problem
  • Fall
  • Air

• I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Up
  • Black
  • Doing

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

  Ed Weeks
  • First
  • Wedding
  • Ever

• The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Think

• It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Identity

• It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

  

  Larry David
  • Country
  • Home
  • Me

• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • See
  • Individual

• Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • Technology
  • Wonderful

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.

  

  Chuck Jones
  • People
  • Important
  • Disney

• The Question of sovereignty is often raised. I am one of those who believe that in a modern world one has to give up a great deal of sovereignty. I am prepared to give up sovereignty to the world, but not to a selected number of European countries. That is not giving up something for world security; it is giving something up to sectional interests.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I don't ever wanna wake up, looking into someone else's eyes.Another voice calling me baby on the other end of the phone.A new girl putting on her makeup before dinner on Friday night.No, I don't ever wanna know. Oh, oh.No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin' to the radio.Oh, oh. Oh, oh.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Night
  • Girl

• My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Eyes

• Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Soul
  • Forgiveness
  • Proceeds

• Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • Children
  • Study
  • Colleagues

• The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale