Andrew Vachss Quotes
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
Quotes to Explore
-
Age for me is just a number.
-
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
-
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
-
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
-
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
-
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
-
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
-
It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
-
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
-
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
-
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
-
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
-
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
-
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
-
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
-
Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
-
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
-
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
-
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
-
Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
-
We are at a point where we may see abrupt and irreversible changes due to climate change.
-
I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
-
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
