Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

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• I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Real
  • Fast

• Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Sex
  • Generation
  • Invented

• I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Shoes
  • Changed
  • Grateful

• Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Can Do
  • Until

• I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Always
  • Share

• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Value
  • Scripture

• And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Earth

• True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • People
  • God
  • True

• I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Leaving
  • Honesty
  • Rhyme

• When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Victory

• There's 5 levels of fatness! Fluffy is one of the levels. There's big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias

• But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Trying
  • Nature

• There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put others' needs before our own, we deplete our energy, which can lead to depression, physical illness, and overwhelm.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • Energy
  • Depression

• We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Creative

• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Reason

• I love talking about food, and bringing people together to enjoy it.

  

  Noelle Scaggs
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Talking

• I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

  

  Yasujirō Ozu
  • Directors
  • Fancy
  • Tofu

• You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Knows
  • Directors

• I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Directors