Michael Koryta Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
-
Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
-
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
-
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
-
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
-
I'm not cynical.
-
They call me Fearless Felix.
-
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
-
I have always liked a challenge.
-
One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
-
When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
-
I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
-
Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
-
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
-
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
-
I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
-
I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
-
When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.
-
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
-
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
-
Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.
-
He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
-
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.
