Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

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• I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Career
  • Faith
  • End

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Home
  • Gun
  • Protection

• I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Great
  • Know

• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Trying
  • Better
  • Said

• When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • World
  • Movie

• To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'

  

  Kal Penn
  • Walking
  • Say
  • Be Careful

• My life is a series of things that just happen.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Is A

• In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Food
  • Mood
  • Meat

• I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Admit

• Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Honesty

• Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Book
  • Style
  • Purpose

• I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

  

  Macy Gray
  • World
  • Goodbye

• Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reality

• I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Football

• I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Why

• Style begins with the people passing through one’s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discrimination—and, yes, from love. It’s all the places you’ve been to and the people and the moments you’ve known: the parts you’ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.

  

  Carol Edgarian
  • People
  • Heart
  • Moments

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• I have a wonderful respect for old people.

  

  Craig Kilborn
  • People
  • Respect

• Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.

  

  John Zorn
  • Good
  • Great

• Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale