Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

There is no self.

Harry Dean Stanton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 14, 1926

Topics

Self

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

John Dryden

LawFirstLastPrerogative

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

Ann Curry

LivePurposeChoosePassionateDays

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard

FearGreatAmericaCivilizationTurn

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

Rob Reiner

LiveMeStoryFindKnowKind

How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera

BeautyGoodnessHowHeightens

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

Jason Calacanis

NewsNewContentLikeTwitterTweet

When I was writing my first book, 'In Harm's Way,' I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I was surprised that sometimes their grandchildren hadn't talked to them about the historic events of that night in July 1945, when the USS Indianapolis went down.

Doug Stanton

SacrificeWritingNightBookDown

In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.

Clark Durant

GodCityWorldDetroitAlwaysUp

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

Ariel Levy

WomanFreeThoughtEarlyKindShe

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

Anne Tyler

DinnerRestaurantWriteHomesick

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

Peter Oliver

SupportPeopleSaidGivenHisQuota

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Scott Shane

AcceptanceGuiltSaidLeavingOffice

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