Life Quotes

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

William Hurt

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

William Hurt

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.

William Hurt

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

William Hurt

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

William Hurt

I just looked at him because I want to be looking in someone's eyes when I die.

William Hurt

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

William Least Heat-Moon

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

William Least Heat-Moon

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

William Least Heat-Moon

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

William Least Heat-Moon

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.

William Least Heat-Moon

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

William Least Heat-Moon

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

William Least Heat-Moon

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot.

William Least Heat-Moon

I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.

William Least Heat-Moon

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

William Morris Hunt

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

William Morris Hunt

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

William Morris Hunt

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

William Morris Hunt

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

William Morris Hunt