John Waters Quotes

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

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• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Sad

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Idea
  • Understand
  • Hollywood

• When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Bad
  • You
  • Happen

• An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Devil
  • Remembered

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Moon
  • Living
  • Year

• I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

  

  Wale
  • Red
  • Say
  • Afraid

• The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Happy

• 'It always seemed to me they’re sort of alike,' he said, 'magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Music
  • Magic

• He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Friends

• Magically turning people's old scalar contexts into list contexts is a recipe for several kinds of disaster.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • May
  • Nature
  • Selfish

• I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Why
  • Power
  • Words

• What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?

  

  Alison Brie
  • Women
  • Guy

• When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'

  

  James Corden
  • Career

• 'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • People
  • Different

• For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?

  

  Cassiodorus
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Concord

• And no business can possibly equate happy workers community with profit effectiveness. Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Business
  • Workers community
  • Profit effectiveness

• Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

  

  John Waters