Last Picture Show Quotes

#1. The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.

William Feather

#2. If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Plato

#3. No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.

Rick Hoffman

#4. I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails

G.P. Taylor

#5. It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

John Shelby Spong

#6. I didn't know anything about film when I first started - I was a painter - but I [always] felt that sound was just as important as the picture. The sound, picture, and ideas have to marry. If an idea carries with it a mood, sound is critical to making that mood.

David Lynch

#7. Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

Quentin Tarantino

#8. If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

Steve Carell

#9. Angela was speechless as George continued to explain.

Charlene Whitman

#10. Jacinda, join us. We're grilling on the back deck."
"Dad, I don't think-"
"I would love that," I lie. Eating with Will's dad ranks right up there with having my teeth drilled, but I have to get inside.

Sophie Jordan

#11. A big book is a big misfortune.

Callimachus

#12. Let your best be for your friend ...

Khalil Gibran

#13. I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

Gia Coppola

#14. In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate.

Sigmund Freud

#15. Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

E. O. Wilson

#16. We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life.

Philip White

#17. He is a general at war with his own army. An exhorter of radical beliefs, shrinking from their obvious conclusions. It was so much easier in the lecture hall, the salon, the seminar. When theory need not be demonstrated in blood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates