Tony Hillerman Quotes

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

Tony Hillerman

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artists

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• My dad dated a lot of supermodels.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Lot
  • Dated

• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Daily
  • Breakfast

• My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • History
  • Justice

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• As many of you know, I come from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one-it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Universe

• The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Girlfriend

• I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Career
  • Single

• That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

  

  Bill Le
  • Real
  • Money
  • Baseball

• You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Time
  • Period

• Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Emotional

• I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • People
  • Hair

• It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Speak
  • Knowing
  • Pause

• I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Fire
  • Devil

• Emotions are captive to reality.

  

  Kao Kalia Yang
  • Reality
  • Emotions

• I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

  

  Andree Putman
  • American
  • Dress
  • Closets

• Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

  

  Tony Hillerman
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Speak