Top 42 George V Higgins Quotes
#1. I was gazing back in the direction of Wales, watching the Prudence clone, when I noticed a couple of drunks lurching in my direction. Night people who live in service stations. The insufficiently deceased.
Iain Sinclair
#3. I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
Vera Farmiga
#4. If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.
George V. Higgins
#5. Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
George V. Higgins
#7. Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)
Richelle Mead
#8. Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.
George V. Higgins
#9. I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
Jack Levine
#10. Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something!
George Bernard Shaw
#11. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
#12. The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
George V. Higgins
#13. I wouldn't mind dispatching all 3 of my room mates vile felines in this apartment. Nasty beasts. I'm just afraid I wouldn't be able to sell "curiosity" as a serial killer.
Geoffrey Hill
#14. The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
Alanis Morissette
#16. The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
#17. Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.
Isaac Asimov
#18. What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,
George V. Higgins
#19. Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
George V. Higgins
#20. To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
Tina Fey
#22. Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
George V. Higgins
#23. Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
George V. Higgins
#24. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
George Bernard Shaw
#25. The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.
George V. Higgins
#27. I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway.
Mary Ann Rivers
#28. HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge ...
George Bernard Shaw
#30. In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#31. How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
George Bernard Shaw
#32. A cop told me, a long time ago, that there's no substitute for knowing what you're doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that're any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.
George V. Higgins
#33. Never tell your reader what your story is about. Reading is a participatory sport. People do it because they are intelligent and enjoy figuring things out for themselves.
(advicetowriters)
George V. Higgins
#34. Mine is a quiet exploration - a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.
Lois Mailou Jones
#35. PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
George Bernard Shaw
#37. The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.
George V. Higgins
#39. Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. The hard truth is often simply: learn to act like a normal person.
Will Hines
#41. MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future.
HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw
#42. The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
George V. Higgins
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