Alice Cooper Quotes
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
-
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
-
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
-
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
-
Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
-
People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
-
I think it's important that things are flawed.
-
The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
-
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
-
I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
-
I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
-
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-
I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
-
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
-
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
-
I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.
-
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
-
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
-
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
-
The war World War 1. gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of intellectuals as well as artists. L'art pour l'art and other grave problems no longer gave me a headache; they seemed to me so much bosh hand interested me as little as platonic love.
-
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
-
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
-
I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.
-
They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.
