Hodge Starkweather Quotes & Sayings

I can't do anything but play guitar. — Tommy Bolin

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. — Harlan Coben

At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement. — Lucas Samaras

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong. — Masuji Ibuse

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. — William Mapother

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. — Edmund Burke

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing. — Joe Frazier

Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday. — Anthony Hopkins

Imagine taking a test knowing the answer. While we know that history flows forward, it is difficult to realize that we envision it backward. Why is it so? We will discuss the point in Chapter 11 but here is a possible explanation: Our minds are not quite designed to understand how the world works, but, rather, to get out of trouble rapidly and have progeny. If they were made for us to understand things, then we would have a machine in it that would run the past history as in a VCR, with a correct chronology, and it would slow us down so much that we would have trouble operating. Psychologists call this overestimation of what one knew at the time of the event due to subsequent information the hindsight bias, the "I knew it all along" effect. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

And the great Now What stretching without end. — Lauren Groff

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. — A.B. Simpson

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected. — Louise Imogen Guiney

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons. — Marcus Aurelius

Power is the great aphrodisiac. — Henry A. Kissinger