William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
Quotes to Explore
-
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
-
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
-
A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
-
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
-
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
-
Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
-
There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
-
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
-
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
-
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
-
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
-
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
-
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
-
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
-
Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
-
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
-
I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
-
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
-
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
-
I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
-
When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.
-
To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
-
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
-
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
