Carl Hiaasen Quotes

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1953

Topics

SuitsYouSpecialDeservePretend

High reputation beats high similarity.

Joe Gebbia

ReputationHighSimilarityBeats

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Mel Brooks

WomenWifeWomanMeShortSecurity

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Stephen Greenblatt

MusicWritingListenNeverWhile

My mom is very calm and quiet, so I think I got that from her. Because my dad is passionate and loud... It was always interesting, and I really enjoyed that my parents always included us in their lives.

Sofia Coppola

ParentsMomCalmThinkInteresting

I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.

Miranda Raison

LovePeopleDoctorMoreAnything

Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.

Jay Parini

BeginningLatePlacesSingleHoly

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Jordan Peterson

BabyWantIvyOppressedStillKids

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

Douglas Coupland

VintageThinkWantSeeI SeeGet

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

Deepika Padukone

FamilyFearHomeAloneLoneliness

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Bob Beamon

MeFindingYouTroubleWriteMost

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Arthur Erickson

WorkProcessArtistResponsibleSeem

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

William Least Heat-Moon

AdventureFindGoTwoKindsWho

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