Sam Shepard Quotes

When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

Sam Shepard

Quotes to Explore

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Barbara Bush
- Done
- Man
- Judge
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

Walter Kohn
- Time
- School
- Small
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali
- Society
- Respect
- Talent
Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

Jack Dempsey
- Thanks
- Number
- Honey
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

Camille Paglia
- Right
- Duty
- Romanticism
But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Fisher Stevens