Desiree Rogers Quotes
We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
-
My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
-
I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
-
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
-
People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
-
We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
-
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
-
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
-
Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
-
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
-
'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
-
I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.
-
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
-
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
-
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
-
Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
-
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
-
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
-
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
-
With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.
-
When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.
-
The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
-
In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series).
-
We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.
