Alan Patrick Herbert Quotes

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Know
  • Changed
  • How

• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Know
  • Care

• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Easy

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Training
  • Week
  • Holiday

• Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Children
  • Company
  • Others

• In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Race

• You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Think
  • You
  • Happen

• 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Character
  • Identity

• Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious

• You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Look

• There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Mother
  • Warrior

• Lal Bahadur Shastri's slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, in 1965.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

• 'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Risk

• Colonel Roosevelt liked the song of the blackbird so much that he was almost indignant that he had not heard more of its reputation before. He said everybody talked about the song of the thrush; it had a great reputation, but the song of the blackbird, though less often mentioned, was much better than that of the thrush. He wanted to know the reason of this injustice and kept asking the question of himself and me. At last he suggested that the name of the bird must have injured its reputation. I suppose the real reason is that the thrush sings for a longer period of the year than the blackbird and is a more obtrusive singer, and that so few people have sufficient feeling about bird songs to care to discriminate.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Song
  • Reputation
  • Singer

• There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

  

  Pope John Paul II
  • People
  • Mother
  • Silence

• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Die

• Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

  

  Kevin Costner

• Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • Business
  • Environment

• A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  Alan Patrick Herbert