Mickey Kaus Quotes
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.
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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
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I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
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Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
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My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
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One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
