Carl Hiaasen Quotes
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
Quotes to Explore
-
For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
-
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
-
For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
-
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
-
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
-
In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
-
I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
-
For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
-
I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
-
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
-
I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
-
The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
-
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
-
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
-
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
-
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
-
Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
-
We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.
-
You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
-
Hasta las flores, para emanar sus perfumes, han menester morirse un poco.
-
Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.
-
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
