F. A. Harper Quotes

She was born in the Objective case.

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

I'm little but I'm old.

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

You cant have justice unless you have truth.

I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's sort of like life in Los Angeles.

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Being in Hollywood and having a love for Christ, is hard.

God wants someone to defend him.

Every person has God-given gifts; when you're using those gifts in your life then you're fulfilling your purpose, and that is beautiful.

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.