Top 100 Quotes About Haskell
#1. The adult was Eric "Rusty" Everett, thirty-seven, a physician's assistant working with Dr. Ron Haskell, whom Rusty often thought of as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Because, Rusty would have explained, he so often remains behind the curtain while I do the work.
Stephen King
#2. SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
Philip Greenspun
#3. Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world
at least up until Haskell came along.
Larry Wall
#4. Haskell whisked the pistol from his pocket and flipped open the barrel. It was empty. "You little--" Then Haskell barked a laugh and plucked the bullets from Kaz's hand, shaking his head. "You've got the devil's own blood in you, boy. Go get my money.
Leigh Bardugo
#5. I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
Damon Lindelof
#6. It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.
Ken Osmond
#8. Get a grip, Haskell. Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi. What's complicated about that?
James A. Hetley
#9. There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
Harlan Ellison
#10. The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.
H.J. Haskell
#11. The magical force that had sundered everything in the castle had occasionally made some very odd choices in its destruction - Sand found a hammer that had been broken only at the wooden handle and not any of the metal parts, and another hammer whose handle was whole while the metal was broken.
Merrie Haskell
#12. Are you suggesting we eat cursed fruit? Vicious fruit? Attacking fruit?
Merrie Haskell
#13. There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I'm shooting will end up on the screen.
Haskell Wexler
#15. I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.
Colleen Haskell
#17. Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.
Haskell Wexler
#18. I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?
Colleen Haskell
#19. When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.
Haskell Wexler
#20. I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.
Haskell Wexler
#21. Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.
Harry Haskell
#22. Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!
Molly Haskell
#23. Dislodge the cultural brainwash that makes so many people so completely miserable. I
Mark Haskell Smith
#24. I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.
Haskell Wexler
#25. I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
Molly Haskell
#26. Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me
Mary Haskell
#27. We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.
Haskell Wexler
#28. I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?
Colleen Haskell
#29. (Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.
Molly Haskell
#30. Fate is for people who are too lazy to do anything
Merrie Haskell
#31. There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.
Molly Haskell
#32. I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.
Colleen Haskell
#33. I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
Colleen Haskell
#34. Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.
Haskell Wexler
#35. One of the attributes of love ... is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.
Molly Haskell
#36. I am not especially unsophisticated about people, and yet I am so inclined to idealize and idolize the few that I am really attached to. I should know better...
Harry Haskell
#37. Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
Molly Haskell
#38. Writing, which used to be my delight, has become an almost forgotten art with me.
Harry Haskell
#39. My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.
Haskell Wexler
#40. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.
Molly Haskell
#41. The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.
Molly Haskell
#42. You're not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge." He paused and shook his head at himself. "And Perrotte's away for a few minutes, and you're talking to yourself again.
Merrie Haskell
#43. Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.
Molly Haskell
#44. An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.
Merrie Haskell
#45. Some things don't need to be mended.
Some things are not meant to be mended. Some things are not for you to mend.
Merrie Haskell
#46. When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.
Haskell Wexler
#47. I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.
Haskell Wexler
#48. I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.
Colleen Haskell
#49. When you hear the word tear gas you think, well, your eyes will burn and that's it. But that whole feeling of your whole skin burning, that you can't breathe, you can't inhale, you feel suffocated - it's a very, very terrifying experience.
Haskell Wexler
#50. The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.
Colleen Haskell
#51. As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.
Molly Haskell
#52. I'm alive," he groaned. "But I'm not doing a very good job of it.
Merrie Haskell
#53. [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.
Molly Haskell
#54. I'm going to Malaysia to try and win a million dollars ... how exciting is that?
Colleen Haskell
#55. I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.
Haskell Wexler
#56. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Molly Haskell
#57. Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.
Colleen Haskell
#58. Comic timing ... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
Colleen Haskell
#59. I understand that you don't want to marry me," I said. "I mean, I don't know why, since I'm simply delightful to be around. But to each his own taste.
Merrie Haskell
#60. The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it's exhausting to get them out in the right order." He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she'd heard one. She raised an eyebrow.
Merrie Haskell
#61. It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
Colleen Haskell
#62. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.
Haskell Wexler
#63. But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death.
Merrie Haskell
#64. But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.
Molly Haskell
#65. What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs? I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.
Mark Haskell Smith
#66. The shrine I prayed at not to go to university," Sand said.
"I guess your prayer was answered," Perrotte said.
Sand strongly considered throwing something at her - but there was nothing to hand that wasn't sacred.
Merrie Haskell
#67. The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.
Haskell Wexler
#68. There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
Molly Haskell
#69. I never would've thought seeing a hundred naked people around a swimming pool would have been dullsville, but it is.
Mark Haskell Smith
#70. American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.
Molly Haskell
#71. I didn't hear any of that," he said. "You didn't?" "Nope. Chivalry occasionally causes deafness.
Merrie Haskell
#72. From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
Haskell Wexler
#73. The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.
Molly Haskell
#74. After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
Colleen Haskell
#75. Who knows what courses their lives would have taken if I had done differently?
Merrie Haskell
#76. I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.
Colleen Haskell
#78. In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
Haskell Wexler
#79. I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.
Colleen Haskell
#81. I held in the sneeze, though, by thinking of the word cucumber. It always works.
Merrie Haskell
#82. I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.
Colleen Haskell
#83. The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
Molly Haskell
#84. Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.
Molly Haskell
#85. In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.
Mark Haskell Smith
#86. like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.
David George Haskell
#87. I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.
Haskell Wexler
#88. The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff out of two-by-four wood. And I would straddle a two-by-four out from the helicopter with a camera and what we call a high hat, which is a low metal stand.
Haskell Wexler
#89. The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.
Harry Haskell
#90. For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
Molly Haskell
#91. The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
Mark Haskell Smith
#92. I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.
Haskell Wexler
#93. Women couldn't identify with her and didn't support her.
Molly Haskell
#94. This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.
Colleen Haskell
#96. Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.
Haskell Wexler
#97. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things.
Haskell Wexler
#99. I asked him: Why didn't you just tell me? He said: 'If I tell you, you'll just forget at some critical point. If you figure it out for yourself, you'll always remember.
Merrie Haskell
#100. Why did being a princess always come down to taxes and cows?
Merrie Haskell
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