John Lurie Quotes

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

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• The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Good Thing
  • Storage

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Me
  • Change

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Game
  • Emotions
  • Behavior

• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Play
  • Religious
  • Now

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Child
  • Old
  • Bottom

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Me
  • Person
  • Hell

• Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay’d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall—

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Long
  • Fall

• I basically stay in jewelry all the time. I have the same couple of necklaces, earrings, and rings, and they usually don't come off my body.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Jewelry

• We have a part-time nanny who does a few afternoons a week. We have a nursery.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Time

• I think, with every kid I coach, I'm trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Do The Right Thing

• You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Ideas
  • Progress
  • Complaining

• I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

  

  John Lurie
  • Trying
  • Experience