Harley Pasternak Quotes

The joke may be that no one likes fruitcake, but if that were the case, they wouldn't appear on store shelves every holiday season!

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• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • City

• As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Food
  • Child
  • Fly

• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Long
  • Everyday
  • Decisions

• Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Free
  • Exercise

• And I like music, too, I like playing music.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Music
  • Like
  • Playing

• I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Time
  • Firsts

• I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Game

• Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Reason
  • Random
  • Endings

• My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Fat

• The best writing is certainly when you are in love

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing

• Egypt is a sovereign nation.

  

  William Hague
  • Nations
  • Egypt
  • Sovereign

• Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

  

  Nicolas Godin Air
  • Song
  • Brain
  • Emotion

• Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Different
  • Love
  • Lose

• Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Body
  • Muscles

• If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • War
  • Military
  • Crime

• I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Building
  • Joke
  • Tension

• The joke may be that no one likes fruitcake, but if that were the case, they wouldn't appear on store shelves every holiday season!

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Joke
  • Fruitcake