Mine Quotes

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.