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

• 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

• 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

• Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth.

  

  Brian Goldman
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Health

• The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Organization

• And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Alone
  • Looks

• You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

  

  Chris Rock

• I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

  

  Evan Glodell
  • Build
  • My Hands
  • Techie

• Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

  

  Louise Fresco
  • Food

• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Hope
  • Light
  • Pain

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

  

  Joe R. Lansdale