True Detective S01e03 Quotes & Sayings

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do. — Daley Thompson

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team. — Dot Richardson

That autumn, I kept coming back to Hopper's images, drawn to them as if they were blueprints and I was a prisoner; as if they contained some vital clue about my state. Though I went with my eyes over dozens of rooms, I always returned to the same place: to the New York diner of Nighthawks, a painting that Joyce Carol Oates once described as "our most poignant, ceaselessly replicated romantic image of American loneliness" ...
Green shadows were falling in spikes and diamonds on the sidewalk. There is no colour in existence that so powerfully communicates urban alienation, the atomisation of human beings inside the edifices they create, as this noxious pallid green, which only came into being with the advent of electricity, and which is inextricably associated with the nocturnal city, the city of glass towers, of empty illuminated offices and neon signs. — Olivia Laing

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that. — Kid Rock

I knew clearly that I could not rebuild my life or put it back together in any way. I had no idea what might lie on the other side of this place. I only knew that the before-world was gone forever. — Jeanette Winterson

They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache. — Cesar Romero

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time. — Jonny Weston

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good. — Samuel Beckett

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested. — Daniel Rodriguez

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind. — Harry Chapin