Post Malone (Austin Richard Post) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
-
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
-
Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
-
If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
-
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
-
I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
-
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
-
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
-
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
-
A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
-
I'm not a one-issue person.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
-
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
-
If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
-
I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
-
I like to laugh and make people have fun.
-
Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
-
I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.
-
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-
Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
-
I was a sad kid.