Traven Quotes

#1. Traven stares at me. If eyes could scream, run home, and hide under the blankets, he'd be blind. Is

Richard Kadrey

#2. Vidocq and Allegra are holding hands on the small bed. I don't need to listen to their hearts or breathing. They're radiating tension like a microwave oven. Kasabian has gone back to his computer, trying to ignore all of this. Traven looks a little lost. Candy's not much better. I

Richard Kadrey

#3. Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

Edward Abbey

#4. Success makes a lot of bad shit go away. So

Michael Connelly

#5. The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

B. Traven

#6. No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

B. Traven

#7. No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.

George MacDonald

#8. To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Ralph Boston

#9. I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'

Lesley Manville

#10. Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life

Sunday Adelaja

#11. The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Bill Copeland

#12. Don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.

B. Traven

#13. If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

B. Traven

#14. The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

B. Traven

#15. Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.

B. Traven

#16. It would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.

B. Traven

#17. I think commercials get a bad rap, that there's no creativity to them, but I haven't found that to be entirely true. The process of auditioning for them can be tedious, but actually doing them can be really fun.

Judith Hoag

#18. For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.

Miroslav Volf

#19. People bring you books, cheap paperbacks, when you're in the hospital: this was how I found out that I hate mystery novels.

John Darnielle

#20. Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein ... don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.

George W. Bush

#21. If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.

B. Traven

#22. All I can to, and the only sense of control I have over this crazy business [moviemaking], is to pick things that I like with people that I love and respect, and then just hope everything else works out.

Ari Graynor

#23. Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against
anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

B. Traven

#24. The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Georg Brandes

#25. While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

Albert Belle

#26. The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

B. Traven

#27. I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

B. Traven

#28. The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

B. Traven

#29. Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.

B. Traven

#30. My brother knows the danger of having nothing to do.

Jessie Burton

#31. The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.

Matt Mullenweg