Edward Bunker Quotes

It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

Edward Bunker

• Pain
• Existence
• Anxiety
• Agony
• Meaningless

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• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • America

• I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Role
  • News
  • Evening

• I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strength
  • Page
  • Call

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.

  

  Wale
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• Friends,

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Friends

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  

  Allan Houston

• I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Alone
  • Dog
  • Anxiety

• I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Ego

• I'm not in this game to make the most money.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Money
  • Game

• You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  

  David Strathairn
  • Money
  • Energy
  • Positive

• 'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Bad

• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  

  David Remnick

• Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Growth

• Some 'Terminator' fans are outraged that I'm playing Sarah Connor. They think I'm not muscly enough. To be honest, I'm a little tired of the comparisons to Linda Hamilton. I know she will always be the original Sarah Connor, but when people see what I bring to the role, they will look at her with new eyes.

  

  Lena Headey
  • People
  • She
  • Eyes

• My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Tears

• In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Existence
  • Gods
  • Convince

• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Character
  • Science
  • Existence

• The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

  

  Paul Johnson
  • Today
  • Meaningful
  • Meaningless

• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  

  Edward Bunker
  • Pain
  • Existence
  • Anxiety