Yoko Ono Quotes
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
-
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
-
I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
-
I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
-
You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
-
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
-
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
-
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
-
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
-
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
-
It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
-
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
-
Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
-
America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
-
I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
-
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
-
Step by step and the thing is done.
-
It's not because I'm bitter or because I don't agree with him politically. I've always been a registered Republican. But it's bad taste to talk about ex-husbands and ex-wives, that's all. Also, I don't know a damn thing about politics.
-
Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
-
One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.
-
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
-
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
