Mike Watt Quotes

The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.

Mike Watt

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• When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • School
  • Kids
  • Government

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Learning
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression

• Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Courage
  • Back
  • Daniel

• It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Goal
  • Child

• What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Said

• I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

  

  Eminem
  • Mind
  • Lost

• I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Parents

• I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Real

• They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• Jupiter: I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers?Aegisteus: Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Death

• You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf is such a challenge - you go from extreme power to slowing down and making putts when you need them.

  

  David Hearn
  • Why
  • Power
  • Control

• It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • America
  • Community
  • Perfect Place

• What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Vision

• It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.

  

  David Mackay
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Relationship
  • Alone
  • Independence

• The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.

  

  Mike Watt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes