Lotter Quotes

#1. Who would I least want to hang out with? Probably John Lotter. I guess I have a place of understanding for everyone I've played.

Peter Sarsgaard

#2. If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

Levon Helm

#3. But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac.

Jane Lotter

#4. I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.

Jane Lotter

#5. Still, they must have got a few things right," Malcolm says. His green eyes sparkle. "You turned out beautifully, if I may say so."
"Oh, you can say it," I reply, taking a drag off my cigarette. "Whether or not I'll believe you is something else entirely.

Jane Lotter

#6. The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people's business.

Patricia Briggs

#7. And may you always remember that obstacles in the path are not obstacles, they ARE the path.

Jane Lotter

#8. Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing.

Jane Lotter

#9. I don't know if you're hip to this, but aside from genetics, the number one requirement for being a drunk is self-pity.

Jane Lotter

#10. We're half siblings, after all. We share the same DNA - and in our family, DNA stands for Denial Now and Always.

Jane Lotter

#11. As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.

Gabriel Cousens M.D.

#12. We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

Paulo Coelho

#13. I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

Jane Lotter

#14. When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

Tommy Bolin

#15. idea. But if you look at her early films, the best ones are all about Bette wanting a male she can't have: Dangerous. All This, and Heaven Too. Jezebel. The Letter. Now, Voyager. They're all about the unattainable. They're all about a woman desiring a man she can never possess.

Jane Lotter

#16. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Unless he calls you names. Then do not love him, run in the opposite direction and throw a gerbil at his door.

Coco J. Ginger

#17. I was thinking how most people don't make you feel much of anything at all. Don't make you feel like time spent with them has grace, like every moment in their company is a gift. But Finn did. Finn, my midsummer night's dream.

Jane Lotter

#18. We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

Arto Lindsay

#19. 3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.

Bisco Hatori

#20. I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

Art Spiegelman

#21. Men who expect universal peace through invention of destructive weapons of war are no wiser than one who, noting the improvement of agricultural implements, should prophesy an end to the tilling of the soil.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. Success is like a seed: the more you plant, the more you receive.

Benjamin Lotter

#23. It was because I would ask myself, What is the point? I would stay away for a while. But I always came back.

Jane Lotter

#24. People think if you have money, it'll fix the problems, but it creates different ones.

Gabriel Iglesias

#25. It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

D.H. Lawrence

#26. The Bette Davis Club," she said. "You've joined, you're a member. It's my metaphor for any female - and there've been zillions - who gets a crush on a gay fellow, dates a gay fellow, or heaven help us, marries a gay fellow.

Jane Lotter

#27. The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.

Jerry Bridges

#28. You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Benjamin Lotter

#29. When love is lonely, its because you have not found the love of your love. Even though you are being love.

Janet Wilson

#30. But nothing's really free, is it? People always make you pay one way or another.

Jane Lotter