Johnny Marcone Quotes & Sayings

Mortification. I'm draped in it. Painted in it. Buried in it. — Tahereh Mafi

All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there. — Jeff Greenwald

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. — Dalai Lama XIV

There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture. — Charlie Munger

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ. — Robert Jeffress

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert. — Robert Mankoff

In these times there is a powerful demarcation between the surface and the deep currents of human development. Events and upheavals, which seem more profound than they really are, are happening on the surface. But there is another and deeper change in progress. It is of long, steady persistent growth, very little affected and not at all disturbed by surface conditions. The artist of today should be alive to this deeper evolution on which all growth depends, has depended and will depend. On the surface there is the battle of institutions, the illustration of events, the strife between peoples. On the surface there is propaganda and there is the effort to force opinions. The deeper current carries no propaganda. The shock of the surface upheaval does not deflect it from its course. It is in search of fundamental principle; that basic principle of all, which in degree as it is apprehended points the way to beauty and order, and to the law of nature. — Robert Henri

I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait. — David Greenberg

No one owns you - no matter what the relationship. You are not here on this earth to fulfill the dreams, wants or wishes of a parent, a mate or a child. You are also not responsible to protect any other person from facing their own consequences or realities. You are here to exist, to develop and to grow and be responsible to and for yourself. In the bigger picture of things, it would be well if you also contributed to making this world a better place to be because you passed through it. — Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot. — Che Guevara

I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night! — Soleil Moon Frye

In the 16th century, after a period of decline and corrupt administration, the abbot sold the lead from the church roof, which later collapsed as a result. — Alta MacAdam