Harry Golden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
-
I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
-
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
-
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
-
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
-
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
-
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
-
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
-
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
-
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
-
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
-
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
-
I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
-
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
-
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
-
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
-
The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
-
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
-
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
-
And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
-
I don't feel like we missed an opportunity. We'll have better opportunities as we go along. We're figuring out how to play against them.
-
There is nothing that art cannot express.
-
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-
No man does right by a woman at a party.
