A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.

This is a combo between Taco and Burrito, nacho!

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.