John Mekas Quotes

#1. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

Laura Busche

#2. I always hated...all sad songs. I thought they made happy people miserable. Now I think I understand them better. Bards write them because they can't hold them back. Sadness has got to flow out or it gets stuck and turns bitter.

Jonathan Renshaw

#3. People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

#4. J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

H.W. Brands

#5. I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it

Bob Proctor

#6. I always get what I want. If I didn't get it, I didn't want it enough.

Mirjana Puhar

#7. If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Martin Scorsese

#8. I've always loved jazz.

Rita Coolidge

#9. We used to trust in God. I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. They didn't put it on the nickels and coppers because they didn't think the poor folks had any trust in God.

Mark Twain

#10. A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Carl Jung