J. P. Donleavy Quotes

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

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• Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Guitar

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Job
  • Want
  • Day

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Hands
  • Capitalism

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Movie

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Different
  • Writing

• You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Music
  • Me
  • Attitude

• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• Lord, help my poor soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Help
  • Soul
  • Poor

• Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Door

• Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • War
  • Beginning

• This loss has left me truly heartbroken. Robin Williams was one of the brightest, most loving & wonderful people I've ever been blessed to know. I'll miss him more than I can ever express in words.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Blessed
  • Missing
  • Wonderful

• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Earth

• Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Sea
  • Blessed
  • Piece