Joe Orton Quotes

Fay: Have you given a thought to the priest?Truscott: We can't have him in on it, miss. Our percentage wouldn't be worth having.Fay: Mr McLeavy threatened to expose us.Truscott: I've been exposed before.Fay: What happened?Truscott: I arrested the man. He's doing twelve years.

Joe Orton

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• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Great
  • Job
  • Action

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Hurt
  • Goal
  • Fight

• Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • School
  • Job
  • Lost

• Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Accidents
  • Anywhere

• After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Done
  • Clever
  • Philosophical

• Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Bored

• In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • War
  • Action

• Candy on the 6-4, leather guts and fishbowlFifty on the pinky ring just to make my fist glow

  

  T.I.
  • Candy

• The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.

  

  Benjamin Graham

• One day, my father brings a cassette. He's showing me this, and he's like, 'Look at this guy, his name is Anthony Santos, like you.' I popped it on and started hearing the songs, the music, and I was like, 'Wow, this sounds great.'

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Great
  • Music
  • Father

• Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Country
  • Hero

• Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Moments

• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God

• There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Black

• Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

  

  Louis Fischer
  • Party
  • Personality
  • Psychology

• There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Up
  • May
  • Dream

• Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Work
  • Women
  • Game

• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Bored
  • Habits

• Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Player

• Fay: Have you given a thought to the priest?Truscott: We can't have him in on it, miss. Our percentage wouldn't be worth having.Fay: Mr McLeavy threatened to expose us.Truscott: I've been exposed before.Fay: What happened?Truscott: I arrested the man. He's doing twelve years.

  

  Joe Orton