Harper Lee Quotes
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.
Quotes to Explore
-
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
-
I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
-
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
-
I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
-
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
-
All of us grow.
-
I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
-
It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
-
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
-
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
-
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
-
My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
-
Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
-
They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
-
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
-
I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
-
Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
-
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
-
For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
-
I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.
-
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism.
-
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.
