Will Harvey Quotes

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

You can tell me anything you want to about investment, but you can't move no money of mine, so I know where all of mine is. Now, if we ain't got a lot, it's our fault.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!

All I do is write their names on the lineup card and let them play. It’s not a tough job. I haven’t misspelled one name yet.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

My mom is a sculptress.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

Funny is when you're serious.

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought wed come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.