quotes about Warts

“And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.”

“I am not gay. I am, as far as I know, heterosexual. I've never been with a guy.”

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

Source : 1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”

“Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.”

“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.”

“The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.”

“People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.”

“If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.”

Source : c.1900 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.5.