Top 70 Lurie Quotes
#1. I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.
Jimmy Smith
#2. I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
Edmund White
#4. When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.
John Lurie
#5. To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.
Jeffrey Lurie
#6. We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.
Alison Lurie
#7. Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things ...
Alison Lurie
#8. You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.
Jeffrey Lurie
#9. You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions.
Jeffrey Lurie
#10. You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.
Jeffrey Lurie
#11. The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
John Lurie
#12. What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer.
John Lurie
#13. I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.
John Lurie
#14. If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.
Jeffrey Lurie
#15. If I were to describe myself as any particular type of owner, it would be a fans' owner because you really get great satisfaction when you can go out on the streets and scream you're No. 1 and you're world champions.
Jeffrey Lurie
#16. Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
Alison Lurie
#17. There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Alison Lurie
#18. You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'
Jeffrey Lurie
#19. Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
Alison Lurie
#20. As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Alison Lurie
#21. You can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.
Alison Lurie
#22. What we do at the end of every season - which is why it's probably not the greatest idea to talk about things in the visitor's locker room after the final game - we sit down and have real serious conversations with all of the senior people.
Jeffrey Lurie
#23. I think that man is conditioned to violence.
Rod Lurie
#24. I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen.
Rod Lurie
#25. America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.
Alison Lurie
#26. My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
John Lurie
#27. But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.
John Lurie
#28. Other than my family and my close friends, there's nothing I love more than owning the team and doing everything I can to make it a success. That's how I live. That is me.
Jeffrey Lurie
#29. I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
John Lurie
#30. With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.
Alison Lurie
#31. Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
Alison Lurie
#32. If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
John Lurie
#33. When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.
John Lurie
#34. In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
Alison Lurie
#35. Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.
Ian Lurie
#36. But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it ...
Alison Lurie
#37. It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.
John Lurie
#38. Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too.
Ian Lurie
#39. I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
John Lurie
#40. I'm an owner that tends to absolutely be supportive of a coach and his vision if it's a real sharp and smart vision. I really believe in that.
Jeffrey Lurie
#41. I think when you have strong leadership at the coaching level and you empower the coach and the coaching staff, you have a lot more stability.
Jeffrey Lurie
#42. What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
John Lurie
#43. The owner always has the final say. You have to decide who is going to be the best fit for the organization.
Jeffrey Lurie
#44. The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.
John Lurie
#45. We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
Alison Lurie
#46. Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
Alison Lurie
#47. There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
Alison Lurie
#48. You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
Alison Lurie
#49. You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.
Rod Lurie
#50. Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?
John Lurie
#51. Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
Alison Lurie
#52. I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.
John Lurie
#53. Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.
Alison Lurie
#54. I think at the end of season you really learn exactly how you might become better.
Jeffrey Lurie
#55. Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
Alison Lurie
#56. The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
Alison Lurie
#57. In the normal process of evaluating the end of the season, I meet with key executives for thorough discussions and evaluations of all aspects of football operations.
Jeffrey Lurie
#58. If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
Alison Lurie
#59. I don't really worry about the weather ... as long as you have good access to the stadium, that's the one thing you worry about.
Jeffrey Lurie
#60. I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
John Lurie
#61. I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.
John Lurie
#62. I've lived through a lot of division championships, a lot of final-four appearances, but our goal is further than that. We want to deliver a Super Bowl.
Jeffrey Lurie
#64. The fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.
Alison Lurie
#65. The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.
Jeffrey Lurie
#66. When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.
Jeffrey Lurie
#67. I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.
John Lurie
#68. We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
#69. The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.
Jeffrey Lurie
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