I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
SAM SHEPARD All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
SAM SHEPARD I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have f...
SAM SHEPARD On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source ...
SAM SHEPARD There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can'...
SAM SHEPARD For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, tim...
SAM SHEPARD The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a cra...
SAM SHEPARD Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him an...
SAM SHEPARD When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms an...
SAM SHEPARD I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
SAM SHEPARD The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible empt...
SAM SHEPARD I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fu...
SAM SHEPARD I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and...
SAM SHEPARD When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.
SAM SHEPARD People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, peo...
SAM SHEPARD I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ide...
SAM SHEPARD It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. A...
SAM SHEPARD In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stag...
SAM SHEPARD If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead e...
SAM SHEPARD Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an are...
SAM SHEPARD Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person wi...
SAM SHEPARD I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD All good writing comes out of aloneness.
SAM SHEPARD I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.
SAM SHEPARD I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
SAM SHEPARD The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we'r...
SAM SHEPARD I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sidema...
SAM SHEPARD It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as ...
SAM SHEPARD Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being ...
SAM SHEPARD I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don'...
SAM SHEPARD Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence,...
SAM SHEPARD There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the div...
SAM SHEPARD They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run ...
SAM SHEPARD My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life tha...
SAM SHEPARD My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When...
SAM SHEPARD Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 secon...
SAM SHEPARD I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't ...
SAM SHEPARD My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and ma...
SAM SHEPARD Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
SAM SHEPARD The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. The...
SAM SHEPARD I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sicke...
SAM SHEPARD I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny
SAM SHEPARD I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and n...
SAM SHEPARD I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; ...
SAM SHEPARD I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
SAM SHEPARD I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than...
SAM SHEPARD I’ve heard writers talk about “discovering a voice,” but for me that wasn’t a problem. There...
SAM SHEPARD Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're ...
SAM SHEPARD I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet...
SAM SHEPARD We're being sold a brand-new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be a...
SAM SHEPARD In the original New York production, which I directed, I had the good fortune to encounter a bluegra...
SAM SHEPARD The Pelican Brief.
SAM SHEPARD Curse of the Starving Class.
SAM SHEPARD There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win...
SAM SHEPARD You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
SAM SHEPARD I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
SAM SHEPARD I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
SAM SHEPARD To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
SAM SHEPARD What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing a...
SAM SHEPARD When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopal...
SAM SHEPARD It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to...
SAM SHEPARD After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, ac...
SAM SHEPARD I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have...
SAM SHEPARD My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve...
SAM SHEPARD When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful abou...
SHEPARD FAIREY I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission s...
ALAN SHEPARD I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than som...
ALAN SHEPARD But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest ca...
ALAN SHEPARD And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that...
ALAN SHEPARD You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
ALAN SHEPARD It's been a long way, but we're here.
ALAN SHEPARD I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teach...
ALAN SHEPARD I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
ALAN SHEPARD A-OK full go.
ALAN SHEPARD Please, dear God, don't let me fuck up.
ALAN SHEPARD I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be you...
SARA SHEPARD You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It...
JIM SHEPARD You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desp...
DAX SHEPARD They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
ALAN SHEPARD There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by ...
DAX SHEPARD I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
DAX SHEPARD The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communica...
SHEPARD FAIREY We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various area...
ALAN SHEPARD Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It&...
DAX SHEPARD Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what...
VONDA SHEPARD I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with f...
SARA SHEPARD I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and...
VONDA SHEPARD Playing clubs is the ultimate - you see the faces; you hear the 'clicking' glasses - I love ...
VONDA SHEPARD So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's hap...
DAX SHEPARD Having him out there is wonderful. He just tells us to come out there, do our best and don't worry a...
ANDREW SHEPARD The difficulty with any vehicle like that that's very low-powered is the currents.
ANDREW SHEPARD I understand the significance is that we'll get more help by him seeing the devastation.
ANDREW SHEPARD I'm real interested to see how this works out.
ANDREW SHEPARD The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get ...
ALAN SHEPARD Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be th...
ALAN SHEPARD I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I ...
DAX SHEPARD I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embod...
SHEPARD FAIREY For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world ...
SHEPARD FAIREY It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen B...
DAX SHEPARD The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well define...
SHEPARD FAIREY It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was dete...
ALAN SHEPARD The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it t...
DAX SHEPARD I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that.
SHEPARD SMITH I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the...
VONDA SHEPARD I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily.
Ezra smiled. "Can I come?
SARA SHEPARD I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-no...
DAX SHEPARD He would listen and he would pick the phone up. Even if he couldn't get the problem solved, people c...
BRIAN SHEPARD We're worried about disease in the water.
BRIAN SHEPARD Our defense pretty much held them every drive.
BRIAN SHEPARD I liked it because it was a challenge. I've always liked a challenge. I liked what the Marines stood...
BRIAN SHEPARD Canada Web Hosting has and will continue to invest in infrastructure, processes and especially peopl...
BRIAN SHEPARD She knew too much. -A
SARA SHEPARD Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so...
SARA SHEPARD Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
SARA SHEPARD You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doin...
ALAN SHEPARD But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I ...
DAX SHEPARD I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I l...
DAX SHEPARD Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybo...
ALAN SHEPARD That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shal...
THOMAS SHEPARD Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went o...
ALAN SHEPARD I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wro...
DAX SHEPARD I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
VONDA SHEPARD Seeing 'Pretty Little Liars' fans adapt and create their own stories is both exciting and fl...
SARA SHEPARD You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I...
DAX SHEPARD I was out on the highway helping to get traffic moving.
CHUCK SHEPARD I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
VONDA SHEPARD For the first time in a while, it seems to be letting up, so we're digging out, and there's a lot of...
CHUCK SHEPARD With some other technologies in the high-tech world, you can actually very accurately simulate it on...
DAVE SHEPARD For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
SARA SHEPARD The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...
SARA SHEPARD You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, ...
ALAN SHEPARD Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the...
ALAN SHEPARD There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down town...
THOMAS SHEPARD The best secrets are the most twisted
SARA SHEPARD When it spills over out of that locker room, those two gentlemen are to be dealt with just like unru...
DAN SHEPARD She went baseline and she just kissed it off the backboard.
LORI SHEPARD Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic a...
DAX SHEPARD The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will b...
SHEPARD SMITH I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possi...
SHEPARD SMITH I'm very excited about our product. Our product is the day's news, something for your water cooler i...
SHEPARD SMITH We were expecting a naval armada, but that hasn't happened.
SHEPARD SMITH He looks to me relieved.
SHEPARD SMITH We are proud of our team members who, in a prompt and efficient manner, extinguished the smoke.
KATHY SHEPARD The dummy races are always popular. People get graded for how clever and original the dummy is, how ...
CHUCK SHEPARD Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so o...
ALAN SHEPARD I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.
SHEPARD SMITH And more than that, she just looked… tired. Like she’d battled the world and the world had won.
SARA SHEPARD All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or ...
DAX SHEPARD Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.
SARA SHEPARD She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't kno...
SARA SHEPARD No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
SARA SHEPARD The demonstration of SEQ5400 at 3GSM will illustrate the advantage of extending polar architecture a...
DAVE SHEPARD It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined ...
ALAN SHEPARD The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will b...
SHEPARD SMITH ,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.
SARA SHEPARD Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky....
SARA SHEPARD I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I ...
ALAN SHEPARD When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ...
SHEPARD SMITH Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.
VONDA SHEPARD James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on ba...
VONDA SHEPARD I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads ...
SARA SHEPARD Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propag...
SHEPARD FAIREY Eventually we're going to have a lot of people trying to cross that highway,
TOM SHEPARD Everybody knows soccer is going to continue to grow. I assume eventually we're talking lights, bleac...
TOM SHEPARD By Christmas we should have an exhibition hall outside so that they can continue to work with the el...
TOM SHEPARD Right now walls should start going up the first week of November,
TOM SHEPARD Right now we have a beach that's a very good attraction for our community and people from outside ou...
TOM SHEPARD It kind of bothers me about the parks because it runs through January right? So the first snow, kids...
TOM SHEPARD You asked what you can do for us. Expand the office here and hire about 15 more people,
TOM SHEPARD If you open them up for deer hunting, you're basically closing them for two months,
TOM SHEPARD It kind of bothers me about the parks,
TOM SHEPARD I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.
SARA SHEPARD I think that Dave Halle ought to be congratulated.
THOMAS SHEPARD I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than...
ALAN SHEPARD Pull yourself together, bitch. He's just a guy.
SARA SHEPARD Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.
SARA SHEPARD Its not bragging if its true.
SARA SHEPARD I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in th...
SARA SHEPARD Don't believe everything you hear
SARA SHEPARD Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them ...
SARA SHEPARD Don't get too comfortable. It's not over until I say it is. -A
SARA SHEPARD Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Never under estimate a pretty little liar.
SARA SHEPARD I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A
SARA SHEPARD Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time.
-Jordan
SARA SHEPARD I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' st...
SHEPARD SMITH I loved the movie 'Heathers' and the TV show 'Twin Peaks.'
SARA SHEPARD There were a bunch of other teams competing [for the Ansari X Prize], that didn't get a Discovery Ch...
DAX SHEPARD It was the best time I've ever had in my life. We got along so well, the three of us,
DAX SHEPARD It was incredible. It was so cool being that close to such a scary animal, ... The very first scene ...
DAX SHEPARD It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How c...
SHEPARD SMITH Over there, there's hope. Over there, there is food and water. But you cannot go from here to there....
SHEPARD SMITH That is perspective. That is all the perspective you need.
SHEPARD SMITH We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.
SHEPARD SMITH We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.
SHEPARD SMITH I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, a...
SHEPARD SMITH I'm excited to contribute to another platform of the FOX News brand. Radio is a fascinating medium a...
SHEPARD SMITH I don't have much time for TV shows, but if I did, I'd watch 'Seinfeld' reruns.
VONDA SHEPARD 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
SARA SHEPARD