Anne Royall Quotes
“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”
Quotes to Explore
-
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
-
Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
-
I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
-
I'm not interested in celebrity.
-
If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
-
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
-
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
-
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
-
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
-
The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
-
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
-
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
-
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
-
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
-
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
-
If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
-
O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
-
They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
-
I don't mean to suggest that our hometown was perfect. We never thought it was, even then. Hope was segregated, like the rest of the South. It had its share of human frailty and vice. But kids were taught, growing up, to respect the dignity of each individual. There was a genuine sense of community in Hope, that crossed income lines and in many ways, race as well.
-
I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.
-
When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
-
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
-
My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
-
“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”
