Jim Morrison Poetry Quotes & Sayings

It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but poetry and songs. — Jim Morrison

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. — Ray Bradbury

Look where we worship. — Jim Morrison

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new. — Patti Smith

On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag. — Bob Hope

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. — P.T. Barnum

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. — Cato The Younger

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more. — Lee Myung-bak

Every month when the bills came in, there was trouble. Mother seemed to have no great extravagances. But she loved pretty things. She had a passion for china, for instance. She saw hundreds of beautiful cups and saucers that it was hard to walk away from and leave. She knew she couldn't buy them, and mustn't, but every so often she did. No one purchase seemed large by itself, but they kept mounting up, and Father declared that she bought more china than the Windsor Hotel. — Clarence Day Jr.

In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night ... starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music. — Jim Morrison

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you. — Jim Morrison

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment. — Iain Pears

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward. — Jim Morrison

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. — Lewis Thomas

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. — Jim Morrison

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. — Napoleon Hill

She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug. — Jim Morrison

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. — Patti Smith

-Ready?
-Ready if you are. — Kerstin Gier

I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man — Jim Morrison

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride. — Jim Morrison

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins. — Peter Tork