Jay Defeo Quotes

#1. You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Alison Bruce

#2. Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Florence Nightingale

#3. The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.

Nhat Hanh

#4. Anyone capable of training the heart is a walking zombie.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#5. I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.

Joel Madden

#6. There is no such thing as inanimate matter ... there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.

Jay DeFeo

#7. About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

Freddie Mercury

#8. Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Franz Kafka

#9. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

Angelina Jolie

#10. Tender as a mothers love ... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

Bob Ross

#11. It is better to live ready than to get ready!

Smith Wigglesworth

#12. This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

Hayley Williams

#13. much of our rhetoric is less about persuading unbelievers, or maintaining the faith of believers, than about, as Thomas Merton put it a generation ago, our search for "an argument strong enough to prove us 'right.'"9

Russell D. Moore

#14. Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Jay DeFeo