Joe Orton Quotes
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, 'Melancholia? Ad nauseam.'Joe Orton
Quotes to Explore
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
Daniel Barber -
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie Smith -
What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
Bassem Youssef -
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
Gabrielle Union -
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
Olivia Wilde
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Kate Christensen -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra -
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance -
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
Xenophanes
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
Orlando Bloom -
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold -
I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
Kat Graham -
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
Lara Spencer
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
Tamara Ecclestone -
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
Charles Williams -
Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging. .
Paul Tsongas -
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
Jack Schmitt -
I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
Ida Lupino -
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, 'Melancholia? Ad nauseam.'
Joe Orton