Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

Joe R. Lansdale

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• Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Black

• I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Children

• I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Lies

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Working
  • Start
  • Something

• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Heart
  • Here
  • Miami

• 'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Film
  • Complement
  • Imran

• I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Film

• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • City
  • Library
  • Greatest

• Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Know
  • Fight

• The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Me
  • Running
  • Same

• The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Work
  • Best
  • Win

• I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Black

• They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World
  • Travel

• One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Opinion

• There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

  

  William James
  • Spiritual
  • Natural
  • Two

• I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Live
  • Bread
  • Jewish

• I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale