Joe Gores famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
-- Joe Gores

#Dog #Mean #Pet
I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.
-- Joe Gores

#Jobs #Gun #Thinking
The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail.
-- Joe Gores

#Law #Jail #Get Away

I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

Joe Gores famous quotes

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