Still Quotes

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.

We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not agree that it's original or new, but basically it is.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.