Charles Bock Quotes

When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.

Charles Bock

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Human
  • Laugh
  • Absurd

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Future

• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Physician

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Money
  • Today
  • Movies

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Father
  • Death
  • Funny

• I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • College
  • Three

• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Children
  • Movie
  • motivation

• I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Friend
  • New York
  • Clothes

• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Distance

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

  

  Amity Shlaes

• Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe

• In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Accomplish
  • Measured
  • Undertake

• When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Different
  • Long
  • Trying