Mark Everett Quotes

#1. Wondering leads to writing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

Mark Oliver Everett

#3. A blanket could be used to sell ice cream to streakers. Well, it could, if those naked runners didn't leave their wallets in their pants.

Jarod Kintz

#4. I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

Mark Oliver Everett

#5. What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

Marc Maron

#6. your happiness
comes before

anyone else's
happiness

-the real meaning of "self-respect.

Amanda Lovelace

#7. What is the purpose of piety if there are no temptations to resist? Man is not God, his strength is the ability to restrain his own nature, so I thought, and if he has nothing to restrain, then what are his merits?

Mesa Selimovic

#8. I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

Mark Oliver Everett

#9. I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

Lisa Bonet

#10. I am very curious about life. I only hope it stays curious about me.

Mark Everett Stone

#11. Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.

Mark Oliver Everett

#12. What appears is good; what is good appears.

Guy Debord

#13. I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

Jonathan Levine

#14. But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

Bella Andre

#15. I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

Mark Oliver Everett

#16. Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to ... But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

Mark Oliver Everett

#17. You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream

Myles Munroe