Hank Chinaski Quotes & Sayings

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him. — Frederik Pohl

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response. — Terry Gilliam

I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I'd already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I'd tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairytale in the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Psychologically, Japanese women depend largely on each other. In their sex-segregated society, they could be criticized for living in a female ghetto, and yet they have what some American feminists are trying to build, a "women's culture" with its own customs, values and even language. — Kittredge Cherry

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me. — Steven Morrissey

...I do write books that are female oriented. In my books, the female characters are always searching for something and they often find it, and what they find is themselves and their own strength. I want girls to understand there has been a long history of strong women... Women have always been oppressed but managed to see their own way, and there is a long tradition of females doing what they want to do, and that's what girls can do. They can have selves of their own, a definition of themselves.'" ~Virginia Hamilton in Shireen Dodson's the Mother-Daughter Book Club — Shireen Dodson

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. — John Grogan

People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'. — Ray A. Davis

When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
down every stronghold of the enemy. — Smith Wigglesworth

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage. — Megyn Kelly

Rome is everybody's memory ... — Eleanor Clark

Don't worry. It'll work out somehow."
" ... Whenever you say that, I get scared things'll actually happen that way."
"Oh? Why would you get scared ? — Keiichi Sigsawa

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so worrisome to me. — Mary Shelley

I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people. — Bobby Jindal