Friend Hopper Quotes

#1. I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

Iain Banks

#2. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Alexander Pope

#3. A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

Margaret Atwood

#4. All I'm saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Yoko Ono

#5. I'm not much of a fly tier. I can do it - my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying' - and I tie some cool flies that I can't buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

Jack Ohman

#6. Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.

Nick Denton

#8. The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Richard Matheson

#9. Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico.

Tom Folsom

#10. One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

P. J. O'Rourke