Zaps Tavern Quotes & Sayings

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. — Quentin Tarantino

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that. — Bill Callahan

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species. — Konrad Lorenz

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. — Nicholas Sparks

Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind. — Asa Don Brown

Don't be scared, puppy dog, little frog, little duck, duckie dog. It's just rain. — Kiran Desai

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom. — Hilaire Belloc

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental. — Gus Van Sant

If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter. — Wang Yangming

What are you, tap dancing up there? You want a put on a show, do you? Well, the theater's closed for the night. Take your act on the road; it's four o'clock in the morning,goddamnit. — David Sedaris

You'll never have a positive life by thinking negatively. — Toni Sorenson

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs. — Barack Obama

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. — Alice Walker

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness. — Simone De Beauvoir