Quotes About Goodis

#1. I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. - Author: Noah Baumbach

#2. Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence. - Author: Michael Haneke

#3. The trouble with people is they don't understand people. - Author: David Goodis

#4. Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door. - Author: David Goodis

#5. It was very fast, that first time. They were on the couch, and then they were off the couch and it was all over. It was like jumping out the window and landing on the street. A quick ride, just like that. - Author: David Goodis

#6. Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U.S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive. - Author: Ed Koch

#7. I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. - Author: Eddie Albert

#8. Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away. - Author: Maya Angelou

#9. I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire. - Author: J.M. Coetzee

#10. Her features were thin and her skin was pale and she was certainly not pretty. But it was an exciting face. It was terribly exciting because it radiated something that a man couldn't see with his eyes but could definitely feel in his bloodstream. - Author: David Goodis

#11. It began with a shattered dream. - Author: David Goodis

#12. There's nothing fragile about this one. That ain't a fragile nose or mouth or chin, and yet it's female, more female than them fragile-pretty types who look more like ornaments than girls. - Author: David Goodis

#13. An old ass knows more than a young colt - Author: Madeleine L'Engle

#14. I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them. - Author: Pat Schneider

#15. You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them. - Author: Marc Andreessen

#16. Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable. - Author: David Goodis

#17. I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was, I wouldn't want it. I like it better this way. More comfortable. - Author: David Goodis

#18. I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads. - Author: Sandra Cisneros

#19. The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. - Author: William F. Buckley Jr.

#20. I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow! - Author: Vinnie Jones

#21. Go to the Scriptures ... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles. - Author: Andrew Jackson

#22. You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it ... you're able to say private things when you're writing. - Author: James St. James

#23. All night men and women seethed up and down the well-known beats. - Author: Virginia Woolf

#24. He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear. - Author: David Goodis

#25. A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away. - Author: David Goodis

#26. It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone. - Author: David Goodis

#27. David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes. - Author: Ed Gorman