Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

Joe R. Lansdale

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• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• Papa died when he was 77.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Died
  • He
  • Papa

• I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Beautiful
  • Just
  • Scent

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Roots

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Holiday
  • Destination
  • Italy

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Teacher

• When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Real
  • Why
  • Hero

• Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.

  

  Valentina
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Earth

• England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bible
  • England
  • Shakespeare

• We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.

  

  Arthur Tappan Pierson
  • Person
  • Bible
  • Scriptures

• I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Bible