Mickey Spillane Quotes

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

Mickey Spillane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 9, 1918 - July 17, 2006

Topics

HateKeep GoingNew YorkEnoughBack

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works.

Jeremy Clarkson

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If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

Max Heindel

NatureGoodLiveGodLawRise Above

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Anna Faris

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A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Ang Lee

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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That is the thing that I was scared of - that I would know intellectually that there's something to glean out of life, but that I would be so broken that I wouldn't care.

Amanda Knox

LifeBrokenCareKnowOutScared

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

Steven Pinker

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Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Silvan Shalom

TimeShortImportantLastOnlyVery

Old Vespas are very appealing to me. I love the way they feel. I love the way they smell. I love the curves on them. I have one of the earliest Vespas ever made, from the 1950s.

Michiel Huisman

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He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

Don Shula

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I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

Dolly Parton

ScarsDoneFairTattoosLittleFew

I really want to be known for my work. That sounds like such a... cliche, and I've thought about how else I can say it to make it sound less hackneyed. But that's what it comes down to... I know people are interested in these things.

Delroy Lindo

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