Best Max Bemis Quotes & Sayings

I'm living a life until I die so there will be no shortage of things to sing about. — Max Bemis

Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else's green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved. — Max Bemis

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia — Max Lucado

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music. — Max Bemis

Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster. — Max Bemis

Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience. — Rupert Spira

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee. — Max Bemis

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place. — Max Bemis

Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from her proper destiny. Her failure to become a woman, as her mother understood the term. — Ian McEwan

The world is shaped by mankind's desires and fears. A war of hope against dread, waged upon a substrate that man himself made malleable though he has long forgotten how. All men and all men's works stand on feet of clay, waiting to be formed and reformed, forged by fear into monsters from the dark core of each soul, waiting to rend the world asunder. — Mark Lawrence

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another. — Max Bemis

There is that small chance I'll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me. — Max Bemis

Kiddo, I'd let you brand me with a hot iron if you wanted to."
"Still a sucker for punishment?"
He grinned. "Something like that. — Karina Halle

You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do. — Max Bemis

It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant — Max Bemis

People get dumped all the time, and it sucks, but you know what you do? You cry; you smash a few plates; you go to a karaoke bar and make a fool of yourself. However you choose to deal with it, it's your shit to handle. It's your burden to carry. You don't drag other people down with you. You don't turn up on the doorstep in the middle of the night acting like a raving lunatic. — Lang Leav

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I want world leaders to choose books over bullets ... We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility. — Malala Yousafzai

For whatever reason, college was just not a huge focus for me. I wasn't planning ahead. I just didn't think about it too much. — Gwynne Shotwell

And then again, maybe people and things are the same as emotions: Even when you can't see them or feel them or be with them, and even when they have died and even before they are born, they still exist somewhere. Far away or close, they're always somewhere. Maybe nothing in the world is truly lost, I think. — Cristina Henriquez

Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just be honest and write from the heart almost to an awkward degree, at least that's what works for me. — Max Bemis

My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life. — Max Bemis

I used to download a lot of music, and I understand it in this economy, but personally I buy my music. It feels good to be able to support a band you like. Plus, it'd be really hypocritical if I were still doing that, since I really hope people are buying and experiencing my music. — Max Bemis

What you haven't experienced is also a part of you. — Marty Rubin

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things. — Zig Ziglar

I'm sort of religious, actually. God can be interpreted many ways, I think. If others were more open-minded about what god can be, instead of just calling it god and saying it works this way or that way, we'd all be in a better situation and a better place. — Max Bemis

Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not. — Max Bemis