Richard Linklater Quotes

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

Richard Linklater

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• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Learning

• I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Fly

• I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Game
  • Popular
  • Price

• When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Important
  • Jesus

• I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Children

• I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Women
  • Heart

• Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Life

• The purpose creates the machine.

  

  Arthur Young
  • Purpose

• There are two sides to every question.

  

  Protagoras
  • Question

• My wife, Donna, is a fantastic cook!

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Wife

• It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized as this kind of vibrant music and when I first started playing in a blues band I just wanted to bring it to a wider public who hadn't really heard it.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • Why
  • Question

• Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Great
  • God

• I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • People

• The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Good
  • Women

• It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Strong
  • Decision
  • Excellence

• Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • God
  • Universe
  • Best

• The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Experience
  • Respect
  • Trust

• Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Real
  • Cutting
  • Fantasy

• Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • World
  • Vision
  • Manifestation