Ernest Gaines Quotes

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

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• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Country
  • Political
  • Doing

• If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Wish
  • Paris
  • Intellectual

• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Look
  • Chicago
  • Arizona

• The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Own

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

  

  Dan Severson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• 'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • People
  • Star
  • Direction

• I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Business
  • Democrat
  • Progressive

• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Wall
  • Made
  • Response

• Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.

  

  Victor Hugo

• Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Long
  • She
  • Bad

• In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • World
  • Heart
  • Desert

• We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

  

  Charles Bass
  • People
  • Country
  • Peace

• I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

  

  Win Butler
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Religious

• Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Education
  • Democracy

• If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Young
  • Say
  • Office

• People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People

• The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

  

  Joe Biden

• The thing I love about electric vehicles is not stopping in gas stations. We're so accustomed to that... Now I'm in control of when I refuel.

  

  Franz von Holzhausen
  • Control

• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Culture
  • Respect
  • Identity