Haskell Quotes

• There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

  Molly Haskell

  Literature, Film, Heroines

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• Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

  Molly Haskell

  Solitude, Infidelity, Adultery

  Molly Haskell (1992). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, Citadel Press

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• The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

  Molly Haskell

  Sex, Fixation, Fetish

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

  Molly Haskell

  Erotic, Understood

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• The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

  Molly Haskell

  Adversity, Unendurable, Endure

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.96, iUniverse

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• One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

  Molly Haskell

  Love Is, Order, Chaos

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

  Colleen Haskell

  Jobs, Opportunity, Wish

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• The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

  Colleen Haskell

  Waiting Around, Afternoon, Sometimes

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• Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

  Colleen Haskell

  People, Stuff, Creeps

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• Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

  Colleen Haskell

  Cameras, Timing, Like You

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• But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

  Molly Haskell

  Love, Art, Order

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

  Philip Greenspun

  Thinking, Language, Programming

  "How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?". Philip Greenspun's Weblog, blogs.harvard.edu. March 7, 2005.

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• The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  Dana Gould

  Party, Days Off, Republican

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• The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid ball required to be hit for carry, whereas it was quickly apparent that the Haskell lent itself to an enormous run. I hold the firm opinion that from this date the essential attitude towards accuracy was completely lost sight of. This was the start of the craze for length and still more length.

  Harry Vardon

  Running, Attitude, Golf

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• Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

  Larry Wall

  Beautiful, World, Language

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• There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

  Harlan Ellison

  Art, Amazon, Midst

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• It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

  Ken Osmond

  Nice, Character, Surprise

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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