Harrigan Quotes & Sayings

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit. — Dick Van Dyke

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. — Antonio Tabucchi

He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded. — Stephen Harrigan

She remembered reading somewhere that Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. Eleanor wished there were a hundred ways to say her name. She thought, maybe, if her name was howled from all corners of the world, in a million different voices, that she might explode into a cloud of snow. Light and separate, her parts floating down onto the world in a series of beautiful crystalline moments. — Suzanne Palmieri

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden. — Stephen Harrigan

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her. — Ann Jillian

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece. — Stephen Harrigan

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop. — Marianne Williamson

The present is the best time to do what we are supposed to do because today will be our tomorrow's yesterday. — Kcat Yarza

But let me tell you something, Harrigan - sooner or later City Hall is gonna catch up to your action, and they're gonna render unto your scofflaw holy-rollin' ass. I only hope I'm there when it happens — Stephen King

risk takers calculatedly take and over take risk — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Within half an hour almost all the women were drunk, a yardstick Laing had long used to measure the success of a party. — J.G. Ballard

Education is resilient, training is robust. — Stanley McChrystal

Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom. — Stephen Harrigan

I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is. — Spike Jonze

It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our claws out for the same seat. The thing will have to be done carefully or we'll end up with out tidy little Whig house divided."
"Why don't you take turns?"
"It's worth thinking about, but no matter how much you'd like politics to be a cotillion it just naturally wants to be a dirt fight. — Stephen Harrigan

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. — John Harrigan

Life is a movie; death is a photograph. — Susan Sontag