Maconda Oconnor Quotes & Sayings

Risk everything, even your name and reputation. Don't risk your generosity, as it will bring back you name and reputation one day — Keerthi Singhe

As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete. — Brian J. White

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively. — Mary Harron

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set. — John Scofield

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money. — Jessica Hahn

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate. — Tom Ford

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here. — Bret Easton Ellis

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer. — Louis Zamperini

I can't live in the normal world,
I'm just chasing time
I belong in that endless whirl
The place where you're mine. — Alexandra Monir

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time. — Madeleine L'Engle

When you feel depressed and you wanta go here, wanta go there, remember Mind Essence; the world, like dreams, will never come true. Operate on Intuition, Rest and Be Happy. It's all in your head what happens so you might as well think happiness. — Jack Kerouac