Alex Cox Quotes

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

Alex Cox

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 15, 1954

Topics

DayHatPinkOne DayEveryoneUp

I just want to be able surf everything - from big waves to small waves.

John John Florence

SmallWavesWantEverythingBig

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Merle Haggard

MusicLatinoReggaeLikeSome

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

John Sexton

PowerMyselfDayTreesThinking

There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.

Siri Hustvedt

SchoolMeHigh SchoolClassHigh

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Trofim Lysenko

KnowledgeLawsMustInclude

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.

Ron Reagan

FatherVoiceNeverHimAlmostRaise

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts.

Marvin Hamlisch

JobPeopleMoonThinkSometimes

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

Mike Love

Time

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Dorothea Dix

WordsMemoryIdeasThinkLanguage

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Chelsea Peretti

LifeRelationshipMy LifeSayAlmost

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

William Godwin

ManThinkErrorTeachingEvery Man

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

Poul Anderson

ThinkTryingForceRememberedWell

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