George Lois Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
-
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
-
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
-
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
-
I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
-
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
-
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
-
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
-
Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
-
Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
-
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
-
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
-
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
-
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
-
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
-
C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
-
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
-
A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.
-
Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
-
You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.
-
If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.
