Larry McMurtry Quotes

'Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?' Harmony asked.

Larry McMurtry

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Championships

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • She
  • History

• When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Stress

• China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.

  

  Ma Jun
  • China
  • Target
  • Pollution

• We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Together
  • Friendship

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Cooking

• If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

  

  Dan Malloy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sleep

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Doing

• I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Heart
  • Born
  • Condition

• If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • You
  • Down

• She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Admire
  • Considered

• Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • War

• I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Hand

• Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Bad
  • Desire

• The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Creation
  • Phenomena

• It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!

  

  Douglas Trumbull
  • Color

• I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Good
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• 'Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?' Harmony asked.

  

  Larry McMurtry