Larry McMurtry Famous Quotes



"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.


Larry McMurtry Quotations






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"I'm still an atheist, thank God."
Luis Bunuel

"The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
Henry David Thoreau

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Noel Adams

"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest."
Pearl Bailey

"We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free"
Max Cavalera

"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)"
Oscar Hammerstein II

"Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors."
Tommy Boy

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
James Arthur Baldwin