Top 75 Garret Quotes
#1. My master gives me bread and beer and every good thing.
Garret Keizer
#2. I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
Garret Dillahunt
#3. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#5. I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
Garret Dillahunt
#6. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
Garret Dillahunt
#7. Garret Sutton's books on corporations provide wonderful insight into the power of personal corporations.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#8. Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
Sydney Smith
#9. The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
Walt Whitman
#10. When I am upstairs in my little garret I have only to remember and imagine the rustle of your dress, and I am ready to bite off my hands.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
Rollo May
#12. Mr. Garret," said Charley, "excuse me, but why does it matter to you what your sons think about religion?
Robert Conley
#13. Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
Garret Dillahunt
#14. He waits until dark. Marie-Laure sits in the mouth of the wardrobe, the false back open, and listens to her uncle switch on the microphone and the transmitter in the attic. His mild voice speaks numbers into the garret. Then music plays, soft and low, full of cellos tonight . . .
Anthony Doerr
#16. I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
Garret Dillahunt
#18. You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
Garret Dillahunt
#19. And yet there's one question whose answer I have thought out, and it suddenly comes to mind ... 'Stay with me.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#20. I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
Garret Dillahunt
#21. In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
Garret Dillahunt
#22. As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
Garret Dillahunt
#23. Going to school is like going to prison ... you have about two weeks to establish your credibility, failing which you're either a punk or as good as dead. Depending on the school, some students can manage ot avoid those stark alternatives, but even at the best school, no teacher does.
Garret Keizer
#24. I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty." Garret chuckled and buried his face in his hands. He asked.
Darynda Jones
#25. Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
Garret Dillahunt
#26. Nothing or nobody can make you feel something you don't think. Your thinking, and only your thinking, creates your feelings.
Garret Kramer
#27. Born in a cellar ... and living in a garret.
Samuel Foote
#28. I'd probably put those salt and pepper shakers away now, David, because we're about to be visited by dribbling cannibal psychopath and we wouldn't want to tease these fellows. Of course, if they're very hungry, I do have this left arm that I don't use all that much.
Garret Keizer
#29. People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.
Garret Keizer
#30. There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
Gaston Bachelard
#31. If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
Henry David Thoreau
#32. Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone ... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#33. I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
Garret Dillahunt
#34. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#35. I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.
Garret Dillahunt
#36. A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.
George Eliot
#37. I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.
Shirley Jackson
#38. Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.
Garret Keizer
#39. Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
Garret Dillahunt
#41. I'd love it if the first time I spent the night with a girl it was because she was tired," James says. "I'd love it if it were you.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#42. Dictionary he identifies 'what ills the scholar's life assail': 'Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail'. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate - the
Henry Hitchings
#43. If God came to India, he'd have to come as bread. If God came to Willoughby union he'd have to came as what?
Garret Keizer
#44. Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#46. The thing of it was that the girls in my class who date boys do hardly anything else. Girls who I used to think were just boring I now think stupid beyond belief. I call them A-Girls and it is not a compliment.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#47. I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
Garret Dillahunt
#48. Annie said her prayers, read her Bible, and tried not to forget God. Ah! could she only have known that God never forgot her, whether she forgot him or not, giving her sleep in her dreary garret, gladness even in Murdoch Malison's school-room, and the light of life everywhere!
George MacDonald
#49. I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
H.P. Lovecraft
#50. The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
Garret Dillahunt
#51. But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
Garret Dillahunt
#52. Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.
Garret John LoPorto
#53. Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.
Victor Hugo
#54. What else is a poem about?
The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry ... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it.
Garret Freymann-Weyr
#55. No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
Garret Dillahunt
#56. On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#57. The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
Lincoln Child
#59. Garret Swopes was a lot like a hot gay friend only he wasn't gay, which was too bad because then I could tell him how hot he was without him getting the wrong idea.
Darynda Jones
#60. Her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
Gustave Flaubert
#61. If you don't share the blessings you receive with others, the Universe will stop sharing blessings with you.
Garret Biss
#62. It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#63. I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.
Garret Dillahunt
#64. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#65. It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
Garret Dillahunt
#66. I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.
Garret Keizer
#67. Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
Henry Ward Beecher
#68. Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel.
Garret Keizer
#69. I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
Felix Dennis
#70. If you can sustain the insight that people are doing the best they can
if you can maintain some faith that this is an insight
you're solid. If not, maybe you should pack it in.
Garret Keizer
#71. It was around that time, early 60s. There were like three kindred spirits in New Jersey. I had two friends who played folk music, old-time music and bluegrass and we started a little band called the Garret Mountain Boys.
David Grisman
#72. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
Garret Dillahunt
#74. I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
Garret Dillahunt
#75. To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton
