Shavitz Quotes & Sayings

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me. — Burt Shavitz

I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on. — Burt Shavitz

She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion. — Vladimir Nabokov

Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding. — Rajneesh

You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make? — Burt Shavitz

Everyone has a price, it seems — Robin LaFevers

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it. — Burt Shavitz

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown. — Daryl Hannah

I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12. — Burt Shavitz

Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under! — Burt Shavitz

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors. — Burt Shavitz

The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money. — Burt Shavitz

There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful. — Burt Shavitz

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success. — Burt Shavitz

If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off. — Burt Shavitz

Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he has made them available to the world through his orchestrations of his work in a unique way. Lastly, he was himself a fine pianist. He covers the entire musical spectrum with his genius. — Marian McPartland

A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere. — Burt Shavitz

You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do. — Burt Shavitz

I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator. — Burt Shavitz

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. — Burt Shavitz

No one has ever accused me of being ambitious. — Burt Shavitz

I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted. — Burt Shavitz

If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to. — Sunday Adelaja

The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us — John Of Damascus