John Waters quote: "The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!"

Without obsession, life is nothing.
JOHN WATERS

My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. ...
JOHN WATERS

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy a...
JOHN WATERS

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who think...
JOHN WATERS

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. Th...
JOHN WATERS

Life is a rotten lottery. I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm tha...
JOHN WATERS

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that ...
JOHN WATERS

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays l...
JOHN WATERS

Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Ce...
JOHN WATERS

My mother's brother became the undersecretary of the interior for Nixon, which did cause a littl...
JOHN WATERS

I always was a weird child. My mother told me the story that, in kindergarten, I would come home and...
JOHN WATERS

Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where m...
JOHN WATERS

I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But th...
JOHN WATERS

'Blood Feast' is my favorite of Lewis' films. When we shot 'Serial Mom,' and I s...
JOHN WATERS

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
JOHN WATERS

Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.
JOHN WATERS

I'd be arrested if I still smoked because I'm the one who would be changing the battery in t...
JOHN WATERS

If you're a juvenile delinquent today, you're a hacker. You live in your parent's house;...
JOHN WATERS

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
JOHN WATERS

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
JOHN WATERS

They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don'...
JOHN WATERS

Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equal...
JOHN WATERS

A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a so...
JOHN WATERS

Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay.
JOHN WATERS

Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You...
JOHN WATERS

The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it...
JOHN WATERS

Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that...
JOHN WATERS

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...
JOHN WATERS

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an ...
JOHN WATERS

I don't mind exercise but it's a private activity. Joggers should run in a wheel - like hamsters - b...
JOHN WATERS

'Hairspray' maybe did change people's minds, and that's how you get your political e...
JOHN WATERS

People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hai...
JOHN WATERS

Who have I been starstruck by in real life? One of the weirdest ones was, when we were making 'C...
JOHN WATERS

He's also someone who men and women are instantly fond of , ... He's the cutest, funniest boy that y...
JOHN WATERS

The ultimate irony is that I'm becoming part of the establishment,
JOHN WATERS

Now it's on Court TV in America, so that's taken the challenge out of it,
JOHN WATERS

I totally neutered it for Wal-Mart and Blockbuster, I made a baby version of my film,
JOHN WATERS

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
JOHN WATERS

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about
JOHN WATERS

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
JOHN WATERS

One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gath...
JOHN WATERS

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like ...
JOHN WATERS

New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cle...
JOHN WATERS

Who's to blame when your kid goes nuts? Is it a blessing to not have children? 'We Need to Talk Abou...
JOHN WATERS

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very c...
JOHN WATERS

Had partition not occurred, or had it proved less controversial and problematic, there would be no s...
JOHN WATERS

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt...
JOHN WATERS

I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, a...
JOHN WATERS

When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like ...
JOHN WATERS

The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don'...
JOHN WATERS

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.
JOHN WATERS

A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealth...
JOHN WATERS

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked wh...
JOHN WATERS

I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tel...
JOHN WATERS

I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never disco...
JOHN WATERS

Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior...
JOHN WATERS

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asle...
JOHN WATERS

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discove...
JOHN WATERS

It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freewa...
JOHN WATERS

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck...
JOHN WATERS

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It�...
JOHN WATERS

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt...
JOHN WATERS

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.
JOHN WATERS

He strapped a video camera to the hood of his car and we drove around while he filmed us smashing th...
JOHN WATERS

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.
JOHN WATERS

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
JOHN WATERS

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to a...
JOHN WATERS

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?
JOHN WATERS

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the h...
JOHN WATERS

But feeling down can make you feel up if you’re the creative type. The emotional damage may have a...
JOHN WATERS

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know...
JOHN WATERS

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a bett...
JOHN WATERS

Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS

You don’t need fashion designers when you are young. Have faith in your own bad taste. Buy the che...
JOHN WATERS

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.
JOHN WATERS

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
JOHN WATERS

In Hollywood, the real stars are all in animation. Alvin and the Chipmunks don't throw star fits, do...
JOHN WATERS

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the mid...
ROGER WATERS

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divor...
ROGER WATERS

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.
ETHEL WATERS

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the ...
ETHEL WATERS

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer becau...
SARAH WATERS

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think n...
ETHEL WATERS

When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and...
MAXINE WATERS

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
MUDDY WATERS

So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS

Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ...
SARAH WATERS

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice t...
MAXINE WATERS

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne...
SARAH WATERS

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, ...
MAXINE WATERS

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adu...
ALICE WATERS

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
ETHEL WATERS

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more ...
ALICE WATERS

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the...
ALICE WATERS

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
ETHEL WATERS

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it'...
MAXINE WATERS

I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not ta...
CRYSTAL WATERS

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doin...
MAXINE WATERS

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides a...
ALICE WATERS

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me...
MUDDY WATERS

Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. Th...
SARAH WATERS

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a...
MUDDY WATERS

Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious p...
ETHEL WATERS

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
ALICE WATERS

I was fascinated by Leontyne Price for obvious reasons,
ANTHONY WATERS

I have a commitment to developing young singers and exposing opera to a larger public,
ANTHONY WATERS

When you can find somebody or something that relates to you and your experiences, it puts opera in a...
ANTHONY WATERS

You're already doing better than what we did.
ANTHONY WATERS

We didn't look at the schedule and try to figure wins and losses. Maybe nobody else believed, but we...
ANTHONY WATERS

I'm pretty sure the atmosphere will be pretty much crazy around here. I think a lot of people will c...
ANTHONY WATERS

I was fascinated by Leontyne Price ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â for obvious reasons,
ANTHONY WATERS

It's still kind of hard on me at times. I sit down and think about it a lot. They tell me don't worr...
ANTHONY WATERS

Leroy helped me out a lot from playing beside him last year, ... I used to pressure myself, and he w...
ANTHONY WATERS

The first series of the game I heard his name like eight times, ... I was like, 'OK, I'm just going ...
ANTHONY WATERS

Edna Lewis had the hands and soul of a great artist, and like all great artists, she had something o...
ALICE WATERS

Papayas should never be refrigerated.
ALICE WATERS

I think she's really up there at the top. It happens only when somebody is very non-compromising and...
ALICE WATERS

I'm always going back to Elizabeth David. I continue to be a fan. I can read and reread and find som...
ALICE WATERS

Every change ultimately is one for the better. You don't know how it is going to be. It is just shuf...
ALICE WATERS

[In Berkeley, Waters was thrilled to have Charles draw attention to the Edible Schoolyard, her creat...
ALICE WATERS

There aren't many big ideas about how to solve the problems,
ALICE WATERS

Kids come into the classroom and it's very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it's their f...
ALICE WATERS

She has influenced all of us.
ALICE WATERS

I'm glad it's a woman. It can't be anything but encouraging to people to have someone at the top, pa...
ALICE WATERS

I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of peop...
MAXINE WATERS

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all moder...
ROGER WATERS

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big ...
ETHEL WATERS

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn'...
MUDDY WATERS

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles...
ROGER WATERS

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in ...
ALICE WATERS

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years....
ALICE WATERS

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and t...
ALICE WATERS

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
ALICE WATERS

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really sus...
ALICE WATERS

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really pr...
ALICE WATERS

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American histo...
FRANK WATERS

These guys have a lot of respect for Lamar. Because of (Lamar), around the league you never hear any...
BRIAN WATERS

Sometimes it's just a lot easier for them to go with the flow of the game and not make the big rever...
BRIAN WATERS

If we didn't go for it, believe me there would have been a lot of discussions in this locker room.
BRIAN WATERS

Teams like New England and Philadelphia win the old-fashioned way. They run the ball, they play good...
BRIAN WATERS

They just needed an upgrade. I think they saw an opportunity to upgrade with Cleveland. Denver saw a...
BRIAN WATERS

It comes down to basic communication and setting expectations.
BRIAN WATERS

It shook me. You know that in this job we have, there are some health issues.
BRIAN WATERS

It was like they got all the momentum right there. But we just made too many mistakes, too many turn...
BRIAN WATERS

It's always nice to see Trent out there. He's our leader. He's the guy who makes this thing work.
BRIAN WATERS

It took us awhile, but we finally just told them to tell us what to do, and we would do it. There wa...
BRIAN WATERS

We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over t...
ROGER WATERS

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scena...
MARK WATERS

I'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these disho...
MAXINE WATERS

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and h...
ETHEL WATERS

The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.
MAXINE WATERS

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or mo...
ETHEL WATERS

I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about the...
MARK WATERS

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistlin...
ETHEL WATERS

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun ...
ETHEL WATERS

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dietin...
ALICE WATERS

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through...
MUDDY WATERS

We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.
MAXINE WATERS

The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and s...
SARAH WATERS

I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think i...
ALICE WATERS

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever ...
ETHEL WATERS

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is pl...
MARK WATERS

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, yo...
ALICE WATERS

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
ETHEL WATERS

We had a great game plan of who we wanted to shut down. But the one we didn't have room for in our e...
GARY WATERS

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted...
MARK WATERS

Quincy called one and I told them we only had one and told them we needed one at the end. But those ...
GARY WATERS

All these statements didn't come from Quincy,
GARY WATERS

I had a talk with Quincy. I told him ?You gotta lead this team. They follow your lead.? And he respo...
GARY WATERS

Quincy went 5-for-20 and they forced that 5-for-20. Many times, he got mid-range shots but he had a ...
GARY WATERS

I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.
ALICE WATERS

Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry wo...
MARK WATERS

Today, the Supreme Court affirms (the trial courts') findings.
CRAIG WATERS

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color....
MAXINE WATERS

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that exi...
ALICE WATERS

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the uns...
ALICE WATERS

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.
SARAH WATERS

Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don...
MUDDY WATERS

I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man,
MAXINE WATERS

one of the most un-American things that one can imagine.
MAXINE WATERS

disrespect and contempt for our community.
MAXINE WATERS

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-dep...
MAXINE WATERS

Every member of this committee should be offended by the ... wild spin that was just put on by Mr. L...
MAXINE WATERS

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color....
MAXINE WATERS

If you ask a young man in South-Central about the difference between the Democratic and Republican p...
MAXINE WATERS

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.
MAXINE WATERS

Many of us are guilty of having allowed Tom Bradley to do whatever he has done without really challe...
MAXINE WATERS

The only word that comes to mind is hypocrite,
MAXINE WATERS

This cowboy capitalism must stop.
MAXINE WATERS

I don't believe in giving private properties to someone else for private use to make money off of it...
MAXINE WATERS

We're not fair-weathered friends. We will be with you to the end.
MAXINE WATERS

There are a lot of naïve people, ... This is America. This should be illuminating about what we nee...
MAXINE WATERS

He didn't have a weapon. He didn't try to run away. He did nothing that could cause the police to ba...
MAXINE WATERS

I will reconsider my endorsement for Mr. Gore if he takes this political position, ... I do not thin...
MAXINE WATERS

The way I see it is they came to his house, uninvited, ... They had not only the force of the embass...
MAXINE WATERS

The power to impeach a president should not be casually used to remove a president and overturn an e...
MAXINE WATERS

The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!

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The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when someone asked me, "Do you have a hobby?" A HOBBY?! DO I LOOK LIKE A FUCKING DABBLER?!

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