Adolfas Mekas Quotes & Sayings

When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song. — Brett Dennen

Detachment is the beginning of mastery. — Sri Aurobindo

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it. — Ashton Kutcher

I have no faith in my ability to judge things. — Ozzy Osbourne

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home. — Jonas Mekas

I'll always be an outrageous character. — Ozzy Osbourne

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. — Orson Scott Card

The joy is in the journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Rising numbers of children enjoy reading and are increasingly likely to read outside the classroom, a study has found. — Anonymous

Flying monkeys?" the Gasman called out a guess. "Like in the Wizard of Oz?"
It dawned on me then. "No," I said tersely "Worse. Flying Erasers. — James Patterson

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone. — LeAnn Rimes

they think about Tomorrow, that is to say, simply, a new today; — Jean-Paul Sartre

It has always been the depth of my belief, my faith, or my love that was the mainspring of my behavior. When once I believed in doing a thing, nothing could prevent my doing it. — Margaret Sanger

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there. — H. Richard Niebuhr

Choochiness is yet another British term that has no precise meaning, but, like pornography, you know it when you see it. The way I have things stacked up, choochiness is a particularly British amalgam of cuddlywuddliness, cutesypiedness, and butter-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouthedness that embraces everything from shops named The Ketch to Hugh Grant's stammer. It is a grating and often maddening behavioral pattern that makes others want to reach out and pinch the choochster's cheeks while secretly longing to stuff a hand grenade right down his throat. "Paul McCartney is choochy; John Lennon is not," says my brother-in-law, Max, who fled England for France in 1976, largely to escape from rampant choochiness. "Paul McCartney: choochy. John Lennon: not choochy. That's the difference." THERE — Joe Queenan