Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Quotes to Explore
-
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
-
I bought a girl roses once.
-
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
-
My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
-
I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
-
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
-
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
-
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
-
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
-
I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
-
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
-
A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
-
A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
-
The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
-
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
-
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
-
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
-
I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
-
The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
-
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
-
You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
-
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.
-
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
