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John Waters Quotes

Total quotes: 26
“If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't f*ck them.”
— John Waters, John Waters: This Filthy World
Tagged: Documentary, Director, Reading, Dating Advice
“If you go to someone’s house and they don’t have any books don’t [sleep with] them.”
— John Waters, This Filthy World
Tagged: Book Lover, Literary Love, Reading
“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Knowledge, Books, Best Reading Quotes
“A follower is as responsible [as a leader] for allowing a leader to lead them foully.”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Leadership
“If you’re not sure you could love your children, please don’t have them, because they might grow up and kill us.”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Children, Love
“I know that true love is supposed to be companionship, growing old together, blah blah blah. I thought that was what friends were for, not sexual partners!”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Companionship, Sex, Friends, Getting Old
“You should never just read for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. ”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Reading, Enjoyment
“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?!”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: work life balance, Hobbies
“I think I've been in a bubble or something. Thinking that fairness was just going to happen. It's not. I think people like me are gonna have to get up off their father's laps and go out there and fight for it.”
— Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: Bubble, Fairness, Fight, Equality
“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Wealth, Knowledge, Books
“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Career, Work, Jerks
“Wilbur: You gotta think big to be big.

Edna: Big ain't the problem in this family, Wilbur.”
— Edna Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: big, Dreams
“They must think my ears are garbage cans. Would you turn that racket down? I'm tryin' to iron here.”
— Edna Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: garbage, Ears, Noise, Iron, Metaphor Examples
“Mr. Flack: Oh, and, Mr. Larkin, perhaps you'd like to share with the rest of the class Patrick Henry's immortal last words.

Link: 'Kiss my ass?'”
— Link Larkin, Hairspray
Tagged: Patrick Henry , Last Words, Rude
“What is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Prison, Alcohol
“I don't wanna be a laundress. I wanna be famous.”
— Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: Laundress , Famous, Dreams
“I think knowin' you's the start of a pretty big adventure.”
— Link Larkin, Hairspray
Tagged: Adventure, Love
“Use your insanity to get ahead.”
— John Waters, Role Models
Tagged: Insanity, Progress
“Hair can't just hang there like a dead thing on your cheeks.”
— Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: hair, style, Similie Examples, Cheek
“I just want tomorrow to be better.”
— Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: tomorrow, better, New Day, Change
“To me, nobody's ugly.”
— John Waters, John Waters' Greatest Paper Quotes
Tagged: ugly, beauty
“This heart only beats for size 60.”
— Wilbur Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: Love, heart, size
“Things need to change and I won't stop trying to change them.”
— Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: Change, Persistance
“Knights in armor don't come any shinier than you.”
— Edna Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: Knights in Armor, Shine, Love
“Motormouth Maybelle: Well, love is a gift. Lotta people don't remember that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a never-ending parade of stupid.

Penny: So you met my mom?”
— Penny Pingleton, Hairspray
Tagged: Love, Stupid, Brace Yourself
“Well, if we can't dance, maybe we should just march.”
— Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray
Tagged: dance, March, protest
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