Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Quotes to Explore
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For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
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You know, when people have no meaning in their lives, they begin to do things that sometimes can be totally crazy.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
