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 thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Play
  • Thought
  • Window

• 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

• In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

  

  Carl Sagan

• 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

• There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Water
  • Miracle
  • Protection

• I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Comedy
  • Variety
  • Pirate

• Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Sex
  • Existence
  • Discussion

• I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

  

  Bonnie Wright
  • Work
  • Different
  • Drawing

• Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Trying
  • Political

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

  

  John Waters