Percival Everett Quotes

#1. The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Hugo Black

#2. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.

Percival Everett

#3. Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.

Keith Stanfield

#4. Linda Mallory is the postmodern fuck.

Percival Everett

#5. Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

Percival Everett

#7. Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

Percival Everett

#8. Writing is like pulling teeth.
From my dick.

David Rakoff

#9. I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.

Lacey Schwimmer

#10. My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Geoffrey Fisher

#11. Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Aeschylus

#12. Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Arnold Bennett

#13. Humanity ... lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Margaret Mead

#14. People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Suzanne Collins

#16. It's a bitch, ain't it? The things we assume.

Percival Everett

#17. It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Percival Everett

#18. I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Francesco Carrozzini

#19. I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.

Terrence J

#20. More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Richard King

#21. I never expect I would become a K-pop star.

Psy

#22. Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

Percival Everett

#23. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.

Percival Everett