Jonathan Evison Quotes

There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

Jonathan Evison

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Politics

• For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Look
  • First
  • Characters

• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Positive
  • Farming

• 'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Mother
  • Woman
  • Problems

• The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Art

• I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Fun

• An indigo snake leaves a lasting impression.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Impression
  • Snake
  • Leaves

• That was when she recognized love: this torture on seeing someone, the greater torture when he was out of sight, in short, a torture without end.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She

• Ethel patted her hair and looked very sneery.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Hair

• Struggling toward impassioned choirs, Crying among the clouds, enraged By gold antagonists in air - I know my lazy, leaden twang Is like the reason in a storm; And yet it brings the storm to bear. I twang it out and leave it there.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Storm

• Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power - power over other people.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • People
  • Power

• I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Life
  • Different

• I think I was more like the black sheep, maybe, that, I was someone that you could blame on, but we were actually agreed on, that we had to stop now, because we came to a point, when it doesn't feel good anymore.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • Good
  • Black
  • Stop

• Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.

  

  Max Liebermann
  • Dream

• I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Disposition

• There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Stop
  • Reason
  • Musicians

• Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • Energy
  • Ideas
  • Successful companies

• There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

  

  Jonathan Evison