Vance Havner Quotes
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
-
I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
-
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
-
My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
-
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
-
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
-
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
-
Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
-
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
-
I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
-
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.
-
There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
-
I was possessed by London.
-
I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.
-
Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
-
Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
-
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
-
I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
-
I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
-
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
-
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
-
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
-
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
