Ed Harris Quotes

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

Prayers Are Free, But Change is going to cost you.

Apparently, I'm a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas.

It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life!

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans. The only time a dog has ever betrayed me... was by dying.

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

I told the Moon...Stop pushing my wife around.

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

No really I'm pretty sure voting mattered a scant 15 years ago but now it's just a way to see how many old people live in your neighborhood.

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

Ive created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake up the next morning your head feels like its been hitten with a stick.

I wanted blood to signify life, not death.

I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver

When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.

Graduating from the School of Hard Knocks doesn't always get you to Fort Knox.

I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.

You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

We are not self-caused little gods.

What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?

Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)

The trouble with Lucious, " he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, " is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.

Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.

You can't break up what was never together. But my heart didn't get that memo.

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

I have had a most unusual life so far. I know not why.

the ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while.

Knowledge is currency here....

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.