Joe David Brown > Quotes

“He smiled. "It's worth every cent, lamb," he said. "The whole purpose of a kit is to stop trouble before it starts. If you can supply the answer to every question anybody might conceivably ask, they wont go prying around on their own." He chuckled. "Besides, I write it off as an operating expense.”
― Joe David Brown, Paper Moon

“… I loved those shopping trips. After a couple of weeks, people stopped recognizing me as the richest little girl in the world. Actually, I never caused much of a commotion but that one time. I guess that’s when I first began to realize the truth about being famous. Up until then I thought people became famous. You know, because of what they did. Oh, I know people can become famous for a short while, like war heroes and people who climb mountains for the first time, but I didn’t realize you had to work full-time at being famous, and work hard. You’ve got to keep your name before the public all the time. That’s why some people who do really important things soon get forgotten, while big showoffs who run around working to get their names in the papers stay famous.”
― Joe David Brown, Paper Moon

“Trixie had a good figure, a little on the heavy side, but I don't guess most people looked past her bosom. Oh, my, that bosom! If Grant had met up with breastworks like that, he never would have taken Vicksburg.”
― Joe David Brown, Paper Moon

“You know, son, there are a lot of people who deny God simply because they say they can't find out where Cain got his wife, or because they say the whale couldn't have swallowed Jonah. 'Course that's not their real reason, an' they know it. I guess it's a way of thinkin'. As far as I'm concerned, I can look at a rose covered with dew or watch a young mother tendin' her baby an' know there's a God. Things like that would be proof enough, even if I didn't know more. People who want to believe in God always can find Him. An' they don't have to wait until they die to know that He's real.”
― Joe David Brown, Stars in My Crown

“… I loved those shopping trips. After a couple of weeks, people stopped recognizing me as the richest little girl in the world. Actually, I never caused much of a commotion but that one time. I guest that’s when I first began to realize the truth about being famous. Up until then I thought people became famous. You know, because of what they did. Oh, I know people can become famous for a short while, like war heroes and people who climb mountains for the first time, but I didn’t realize you had to work full-time at being famous, and work hard. You’ve got to keep your name before the public all the time. That’s why some people who do really important things soon get forgotten, while big showoffs who run around working to get their names in the papers stay famous.”
― Joe David Brown, Paper Moon