Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes!

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

To think I thought you could lose your place in history.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he'll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for 'Hearts in Atlantis.' He liked it. Talk about relief.

I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.

I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

Daniel Bryan looks like he doesn't want the attention, but he does. He acts like he doesn't want the notoriety, but he does.