Rick Moody Quotes

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

Rick Moody

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• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • American
  • Football
  • Baseball

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • You
  • Secret
  • Nails

• It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Stars
  • Week
  • Ship

• There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Age
  • Logic

• Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Sky

• I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Reflection

• I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • World
  • Sacrifice

• Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Time
  • Important
  • Pretty

• Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.

  

  Keegan Bradley
  • Different
  • Important
  • Wind

• The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Important
  • Book

• Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Decision

• I was attracted to the bad boys, the troublemakers. You know, the ones that were really cute but didn't come home. So I have a couple of failed marriages under my belt, but that's OK.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Couple

• All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Important
  • Really
  • Contempt