River Phoenix Quotes

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

River Phoenix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993

Topics

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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade.

Joan Didion

MeWritingStartKindFadeOut

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

FearTravelDirectionMustOur

I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

Jennifer Saunders

PoliceThoughtRememberYouLook

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.

Matthew Desmond

WorkBookThinkDataPhiladelphia

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Amy Adams

FamilySimpleHolidaysYouFind

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Robin Ince

LifeRestPresentUniverseYouMore

I was a very driven young person.

Rutina Wesley

PersonYoungDrivenVery

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Luis Palau

YouBadFailWorseMorallyRepent

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

PoetryAdolescenceThusPreserved

The problem with me and TV shows is once I start watching them, I have to watch them all because I'm so impatient. I need the entire series to be on TV, and then I'll sit all day and watch the entire thing. So I did that with 'Homeland,' and I did that with 'Veep.'

Jonathan Anderson

DayMeStartProblemWatchingNeed

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

Derek Walcott

GoodMorningSeaCultureSunrise

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

Colleen McCullough

I AmWritingWantWillTouchMore

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