Armond White Quotes

#1. The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

Calvin Coolidge

#2. I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

Danielle Steel

#3. There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

Elvis Presley

#4. Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Shia Labeouf

#5. The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

Armond White

#6. I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books.

Jim Harrison

#7. Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

G. Willow Wilson

#8. Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

Armond White

#9. If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

Armond White

#10. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination
the usefulness of toys
and strictly celebrates consumerism.

Armond White

#12. Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises.

Armond White

#13. Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

Armond White

#14. The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Max Frisch

#15. I've got two sons whom I love to death, and I love them differently.

Sylvester McCoy

#16. The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

Armond White

#17. Courage is seeking a rainbow within a storm.
Genius is finding it.

Manoj Vaz