Alan Heathcock Quotes

#1. The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the heart of nothing much that mattered.

Alan Heathcock

#2. I tried to speak your poems
but I could not!
The weeping of the gods
fell upon my ears.

Shiki Masaoka

#3. And underneath it all, there remained an ever present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere.

Zadie Smith

#4. Things vanished. People vanished. Clouds gave way to sun gave way to night. Only feelings, like spirits, endured, branded to the back of our eyes, laced into our marrow.

Alan Heathcock

#5. No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn't really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.

Alan Heathcock

#6. You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more.

Alan Heathcock

#7. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

#8. Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody.

Alan Heathcock

#9. I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

David Neeleman

#10. If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.

Cathy Hapka

#11. I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head," Winslow said. "Just for a moment. Then you'd know what all I can't find how to say.

Alan Heathcock

#12. Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Gustave Le Bon

#13. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.

Alan Heathcock

#14. With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Fannie Lou Hamer