Lusia Strus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
-
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
-
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
-
It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
-
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
-
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
-
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
-
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
-
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
-
I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
-
I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
-
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
-
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
-
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
-
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
-
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
-
Most of the people don't know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
-
You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
-
MORAL: The grass is only greener when you're not caring for your own lawn.
-
I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
-
Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.
-
Portugal. The Man, to me, doesn't have any real ties. We try to change things up with every album, really progress, and let things happen.
-
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.
-
I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.
