William Batchelder Greene Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
-
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
-
Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
-
I really don't know life without wrestling.
-
I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
-
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
-
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
-
In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
-
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
-
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
-
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
-
I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'
-
I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
-
As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
-
'Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.'
-
He took particular delight in neutralizing those who desperately needed to be neutralized, those overblown, self-important, arrogant half-wits who were always running about dictating behavior, morals, and theology to everyone else. And he never looked back.
-
No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
-
I've been your slave Ever since I've been your babe But before I be your dog I'll see you in your grave.
-
I don't read a lot of MMA news. I try to stay out of it.
-
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes - the wall, the wall!
-
I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.
-
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
-
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability.
-
Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not.
