Frank Morrison Spillane (Mickey Spillane) Quotes

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

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• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Writing
  • Grandma
  • Visiting

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
  • War
  • Man

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Past
  • Kind
  • Player

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  

  Dan Millman
  • God
  • Money
  • Energy

• You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I think a superhero would be awesome to play.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Think
  • Awesome
  • Superhero

• I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Children
  • Real

• We are not communists.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Communists

• We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Live
  • Point
  • Personal

• Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Write
  • Problems
  • Down

• Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Today
  • Blow

• People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Care

• I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

  

  Frank Morrison Spillane
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