Houseman Quotes & Sayings

There's this to say of love and breath
They give a man a taste for death. — A.E. Housman

Nothing seems true that cannot also seem false. — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

They make money the old fashioned way ... they earn it. — John Houseman

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. — Marty Rubin

Haylee thought of all the supernatural creatures that could kill her ... a vampire or even a vampire slayer, and became angry at the idea a fairy might end her life tonight. — Natasha Larry

Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave. — William H Gass

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time. — Shania Twain

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you. — Bodhidharma

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married. — Groucho Marx

The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness. — Sergio De La Pava

The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life. — John Houseman

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition. — Jennifer Grey

Why argue about decisions you're not powerful enough to make yourself? — John Houseman

I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that. — Kim Carnes

You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others. — Kemi Sogunle

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man. — Illeana Douglas

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject. — Ron Shock

Seeds not planted or tended by choice tend to be weeds, so at least for me, it's very helpful to consciously and periodically choose which seeds I want to water, and to think through what I expect to happen from that watering. Investors can spend a lot of time and energy reacting to the latest bits of news and trying to predict the next surprise, rather than choosing a consistent set of daily actions that they can carry out as things develop, regardless of how they develop. — John Houseman

It was an interesting night. I'd never been to a non-Jewish wedding, and Phelan assured me that this one was not the norm. The bride and groom got pissed as newts - he ended up passed out, sprawled face down in his own vomit, while she did the cancan on the bridal table, flashing something old, which apparently was nothing new. — Paula Houseman

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man. — Vincente Minnelli