Winter's Bone Quotes

#1. I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

Daniel Woodrell

#2. I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.

Joe R. Lansdale

#3. I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

Damien Chazelle

#4. In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

Bill Hader

#5. I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.

Daniel Woodrell

#6. And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield ...

Don McLean

#7. Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

Marlene Dumas

#8. The constable lit the bong and lost himself in the scuba bubbles of sweet comforting smoke.

Christopher Moore

#9. They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one - you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.

Kerry Greenwood

#10. The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Nolan Bushnell

#11. Too often, what we want is the stuff of God. We want protection. We want his provision. We want to be defended when we're dishonored. We want to be helped when we serve. We want what God can bring us, but do we really want him?

Mark Hall

#12. T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Johnny Winter

#13. It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Andrew Carnegie

#14. You can't lock yourself up and make yourself completely safe. You can't. It's not possible.

Pramila Jayapal

#15. What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.

C. Nzingha Smith

#17. The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

#18. Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

Hanya Yanagihara

#19. I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape
the lonliness of it
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it
the whole story dosen't show.

Andrew Wyeth

#20. Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

Gene Perret

#21. His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he'd been a strict master lording over my lessons while tender with the flower of his heart, my sister Anabine. Ana, the lovely, blooming jewel. Zyndel, she of clever wit.

Jamie Wyman

#22. You plant a garden one flower at a time ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

Jeanne Marie Laskas