Eugene Patterson Quotes & Sayings

Meanwhile, however, what's most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming. — Stanley Kauffmann

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual ... Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. — Mark Twain

I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means. — Michel Ocelot

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there. — Charlie Hunnam

Here's the thing about New York, the thing I love most: there is no such substance as silence. If you ever stop talking, and he stops talking, the city takes over for you. A siren forms a distant parabola of sound. A door slams. The old couple in 4A argues over who will answer the telephone. The young lovers in 2C reach an animalistic climax. A million other lives play out on your doorstep, and not one of them gives a damn about your little problems. Life goes on and on and on. — Beatriz Williams

I'm going to bed before any of you think of another brilliant way to get us all killed, or worse, EXPELLED. — J.K. Rowling

WHITEWASHING HISTORY "Whoa!" you might say. "We've never heard this story about the Democrats. Are you making this stuff up?" Actually, no. Nothing I write in this chapter is controversial in terms of whether it happened or not. I am relying on the mainstream historians of slavery: David Brion Davis, Kenneth Stampp, Eugene Genovese, Orlando Patterson. How, then, can my arguments sound so outrageous? The reason is that progressive Democrats have whitewashed the party's history. They have cleaned up the record. — Dinesh D'Souza

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures. — J. B. Smoove

The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival. — Jim Trefethen

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy. — Ben Barnes

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. — Karl Kraus