Jimsie Looper Quotes

#1. He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Buddha

#2. Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Aaron Burr

#3. Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise. Somewhere, like in Krazy Kat, you've got to throw the brick.

Richard Merkin

#4. Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

Andre Malraux

#5. Every relationship has fissures and cracks. That doesn't mean it's meaningless or bad or even wrong. We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray. Yet we somehow expect our relationships to never be anything but simple and pure.

Harlan Coben

#6. Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I'm gonna get mad.

Ben Bradlee

#7. How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

Paul Arden

#8. The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

Maria Montessori

#9. The message is that no matter how stuck we feel, we are always moving, and transforming. All difficult moments are transitional times, we are always evolving, and becoming the next version of ourselves. We just need to know that and stick it out.

Cecelia Ahern

#10. I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

Harmony Korine

#11. Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Lord Chesterfield

#12. I am determined to do my very best.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I'd go for roles that would say 'for all ethnicities,' but what they're pretty much saying is, 'We want a Caucasian guy or a black guy.' One or the other.

Bronson Pelletier

#14. Do you know I used to pride myself on the fact that I'd never booked a show in my life, but that I'd played so many because I'd been invited?

Ariel Pink

#15. We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

Douglas Rushkoff