Joshua Ferris Quotes
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
Quotes to Explore
-
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
-
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
-
I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
-
I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
-
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
-
I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
-
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
-
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
-
I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
-
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
-
Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
-
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
-
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
-
I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
-
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
-
I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
-
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
-
Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.
-
I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.
-
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
-
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
-
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
-
The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.
