Hoogsteen Quotes & Sayings

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system. — John Fante

Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods' sake! It's a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don't put some effort into - What? — M.C. Scott

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise. — Billy Corgan

I'm sort of an 'automatic' writer. I'm not much for chiseling away at songs or working at them for days trying to make them perfect. If I can sit down and write something in five minutes, then that's great. And if that doesn't happen, then either it doesn't get finished or else it's usually not any good. — Leon Russell

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. — Warren Beatty

A letter arrives stamped with the slogan "The U. S. Army, key to peace." No army is the key to peace, neither the U. S. Army nor the Soviet Army nor any other. No "great" nation has the key to anything but war. Power has nothing to do with peace. The more men build up military power, the more they violate peace and destroy it. — Thomas Merton

Eternity is the Absolute present. — D.T. Suzuki

It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense. — Noam Chomsky

My Mother - Amma
Her touch was my solace,
Her smile did encourage,
Her love was my strength,
Her stare, I fully decant,
Her care was my power,
Her joy was my shower,
Her anger corrected my path,
Her laughter filled my heart,
Her silence made me ponder,
Her glare was my reminder,
Her scorn corrected my track,
Her embrace I never did lack. — Munindra Misra

Venting, even just a little, keeps the apeshits away. — Suzanne Brockmann

But who shall tell how many ages it seemed to this prisoner? — Mark Twain

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? — Van Wyck Brooks