Errol Spence Quotes

Has every oyster a different taste? ~ Errol Flynn

The way people move
is their autobiography in motion. ~ Gerry Spence

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. ~ Errol Morris

It is a rare goal that has only one path. ~ Carma Spence

Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road. ~ Walter Spence

if you're dealing with monkeys, you got to expect some wrenches..... ~ Errol Flynn

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. ~ Errol Morris

Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly. ~ Errol Morris

The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is ~ Errol Morris

Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure. ~ Errol Flynn

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles. ~ Gerry Spence

Roll the Dice and Watch Them Come Up Snake Eyes Eve ~ Jackson Spence

Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking. ~ John Spence

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves. ~ Gerry Spence

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. ~ Errol Flynn

The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true. ~ Gerry Spence

My father was never anti-anything in our house. ~ Errol Flynn

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. ~ Errol Morris

I want faith; but I am faithless ~ Errol Flynn

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. ~ Errol Morris

The operational word in every competent defense is attack. If you're explaining and defending, you're losing. ~ Gerry Spence

...that in every timeline of life there are no words that can transcend the things we feel. ~ Christian Strayhorn Spence

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good. ~ Errol Flynn

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is. ~ Errol Morris

Words that do not create images should be discarded. ~ Gerry Spence

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking? ~ Errol Morris

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. ~ Errol Morris

Even though she could never be an actual librarian because her love for books is only matched by her disdain for the general public. ~ Annie Spence

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. ~ Errol Morris

Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself. ~ Roy Spence

To say the perfect thing at the perfect moment leaves a feeling that cannot be recreated. ~ Christian Strayhorn Spence

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves. ~ Gerry Spence

The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus. ~ Roy Spence

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ Gerry Spence

Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding. ~ John Spence

People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them. ~ John Spence

The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth. ~ Roy Spence

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance ~ Errol Flynn

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all? ~ Errol Morris

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. ~ Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds. ~ Errol Morris

To excel in the art of domestic argument, one must master the art of losing. ~ Gerry Spence

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world. ~ Errol Flynn

What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow. ~ John Spence

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say. ~ Errol Morris

By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars. ~ Errol Coder

I like my whisky old and my women young. ~ Errol Flynn

I think calling someone a character is a compliment. ~ Errol Morris

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore. ~ Errol Morris

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it. ~ Errol Morris

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges. ~ Errol Morris

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence. ~ Errol Morris

Reading has shaped me, guided me, reflected me and helped me understand and connect with, and this is not hyperbole, HUMANITY. ~ Annie Spence

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life ~ Catherine Helen Spence

My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire. ~ Catherine Helen Spence

People are more what they hide than what they show. ~ John Spence

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves. ~ Gerry Spence

Your Day Is Your Life ~ John Spence

Credibility is what it is ALL about ... ~ Gerry Spence

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with. ~ John Spence

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. ~ Errol Morris

In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods. ~ Lewis Spence

Don't think of cost. Think of value. ~ John Spence

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide. ~ Michael Spence

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. ~ John Spence

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie. ~ Errol Morris

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing. ~ Errol Morris

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together. ~ Errol Morris

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument. ~ Gerry Spence

I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets ~ Gerry Spence

I look back to a happy childhood. ~ Catherine Helen Spence

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.' ~ Errol Morris

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. ~ Errol Morris

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable. ~ Errol Morris

In all likelihood fairies of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their diminutive congeners were the swarming spirits of primitive imagination. ~ Lewis Spence

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer ~ Errol Flynn

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs. ~ Errol Morris

invest simultaneously in the agricultural sector, in education, in productivity-enhancing technology and its dissemination, and in infrastructure that enables connectivity to the rest of the economy. ~ Michael Spence

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason. ~ Errol Morris

GOD will never disregard or turn away sincere prayers from those who diligently seek Him and humbly call upon His Name. ~ Errol Anthony Smythe

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living. ~ Errol Flynn

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. ~ Errol Morris

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself. ~ Errol Morris

I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything. ~ Errol Morris

There is no other place where you can go and basically say, "I need help with this area of my life" and someone will respond, "All right, let's figure this out". ~ Annie Spence

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day. ~ Errol Flynn

There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience. ~ Errol Morris

Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody. ~ John Spence

First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories. ~ Errol Morris

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~ Errol Flynn

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you. ~ John Spence

Live from the inside out. Your mind, body and spirit are interconnected. Nourish your soul with mental and physical wellness. ~ Janet Taylor Spence

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. ~ Catherine Helen Spence

You are the average of your five closest associates. ~ John Spence

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell. ~ Errol Morris

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor. ~ Errol Flynn

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense ~ Errol Flynn

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way. ~ John Spence

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. ~ Catherine Helen Spence

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker. ~ Gerry Spence