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Richard Brautigan Quotes

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Richard Brautigan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1935 - September 14, 1984

Topics

Perfection Space Wrong Go Nothing

In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it's a total failure.

Robert Rinder

Work Love Failure Home Comfort Been

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

Amartya Sen

Choice Welfare Collective Left Delhi

Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.

Stephnie Weir

Fun Play Sometimes Being Part Pole

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

Spike Jonze

Day Compromise End Week Trying You

There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.'

Sissy Spacek

Time People Thinking Remember Movies

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

Shirley Booth

Money You Need Position OK Guess

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Joyce Appleby

Worth Well-Being Depend Remembering

I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.

Loni Love

Think Feel Judge Right Offensive

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.

Donna Mills

Women Role Model Mail Through Role

If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.

David Shields

Black Think Doing White Never Bus

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

Brian Andreas

Science Child Talking You Wonder

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

William P. Leahy

Always Discussion Up Issues Catholic