Alan Watts Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
-
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
-
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
-
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
-
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
-
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.
-
Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
-
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.
-
Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
-
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?
-
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
-
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-
Straight people are everywhere!
-
I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
-
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
-
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
-
My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
-
We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.
-
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
-
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
-
I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.
-
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
-
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
