Daniel Woodrell Quotes

I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.

Daniel Woodrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 4, 1953

Topics

HistoryReadingFeetAmericanNaive

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

Andrew Eldritch

MusicTimePeopleMeSomeoneDown

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

FightLookReligionsManifestation

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Suge Knight

CharacterPeoplePrisonBetterJudge

We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas.

Steve Scalise

OpportunityIdeasTalentsEveryone

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

Mary Gauthier

MyselfYoungSoberGotFinallyBeen

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.

Christopher Monckton

I CanHeadStandingTransfer

I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.

Brandi Carlile

FamilyHomeMyselfChallengeYear

There are things that are only palatable until they become uncomfortable for us, so it's very easy to complain about some problem the minute it becomes a problem for you. But you're okay with certain aspects of gentrification if they're the aspects you like.

Wyatt Cenac

ProblemUncomfortableEasyYouOkay

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

William Shakespeare

SympathySingleComeSpiesSorrows

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Susan Sontag

TruthWritingTruth IsAnythingOnly

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

Scott Ritter

WarGameVideoNintendoSomeSort

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

Ridley Scott

ViewPoliticalPoint Of ViewPoint

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