Rick Moody Quotes

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Being
  • Thing

• Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Work
  • See
  • Directors

• They worked hard to not give labor a dedicated slot today.

  

  Alan Young
  • Today
  • Labor
  • Worked

• I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Great
  • School
  • Black

• 99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Break
  • Wants
  • Less

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Death
  • Economy
  • Break

• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Poetry

• It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Break
  • Give

• Hope will break your heart all over again.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Break

• West Virginia clearly wanted it more. They worked harder, and played with a great deal of heart and determination.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Heart
  • Wanted
  • Worked

• Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

  

  William Petersen
  • Law
  • Break
  • Stills

• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Break
  • Hearts

• I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Genius
  • Worked
  • Casey Stengel

• Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Done
  • Book

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Human
  • Stupidity

• To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.

  

  Wilfrid Sellars
  • Physical
  • Concepts
  • Impressions

• The racing that we've got in our industry right now is the best racing in the worldperiod.

  

  Chad Knaus
  • Best
  • Industry
  • Racing

• The way you feel is your point of attraction, and so, the Law of Attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you feel. When you feel lonely, you attract more loneliness. When you feel poor, you attract more poverty. When you feel sick, you attract more sickness. When you feel unhappy, you attract more unhappiness. When you feel healthy and vital and alive and prosperous-you attract more of all of those things.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Sick
  • Lonely
  • Healthy

• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Break
  • Worked
  • Whenever