John Michael Hayes Quotes

Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

John Michael Hayes

Quotes to Explore

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You
- Tax
- Benefit
I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

Abel Korzeniowski
- Art
- Moment
- Immature
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

Rachel Cusk
- Work
- Book
- Fear
I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.

Naftali Bennett
- Today
- Government
- Vote
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

Warren Farrell
- Good
- Great
- Men
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig
- Free
- Imagination
- Someone