"To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol."

-- Ivan Illich

#Men Quotes #Idols Quotes #Hell Quotes

“There are moments that I`ve had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.”

Source : Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.205, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn't satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going--till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There's a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it's a forbidding looking place.”
“One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.”
“Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success.”
“Phyllis Diller came through a mine field of male comedians when she arrived on the comedy scene and she defused them all. She won her place in the Hall of Comedy as the First Lady. I will miss her.”
“We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.”

Source : "Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch - review" by Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.
“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”
“A rhyme doesn't make a song.”

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