C. Douglas Payne Quotes
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
Quotes to Explore
-
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
-
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
-
The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
-
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
-
Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
-
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
-
Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
-
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
-
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
-
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
-
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
-
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
-
I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
-
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
-
I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.
-
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.
-
Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
-
Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
-
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
