Joe E. Lewis Quotes

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

Sometimes I just revert back to Dusty's kid. I'm trying to chase his ghost, and it's a pretty hard ghost to chase.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and then disillusionment, I believe I need all the excuses I can make.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.