T. C. Boyle Quotes

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

T. C. Boyle

• Drug

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Travel
  • Too Much
  • Pets

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Scientist
  • Continue

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Mercy

• Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  

  Clare Short

• When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Friends
  • Mom

• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Phoenix

• When I was married, or a few years ago, I never thought I was fat. I never thought I was huge. I was like, 'I still look good. I'm just made to have curves or be a little bigger.'

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Good

• I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Control

• When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

• Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • World
  • God
  • Different

• As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People

• Still loved but deprived of grace.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Loved
  • Grace

• All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Drug