Shavitz Quotes

#1. The grey city and its lost hearts force its way between myself and my healing.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

Burt Shavitz

#3. A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful.

Burt Shavitz

#5. With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

Michael Ian Black

#6. Sometimes when troops are overseas working these incredibly long hours in a difficult situation, they're not always hearing how much they're appreciated.

Kyrsten Sinema

#7. So many different things make me come alive: performing for people, making people laugh, music and dancing or any kind of physical activity that gets me out of my head and into my body. I'm constantly inspired by my surroundings and people I see that are "killing it."

Xosha Roquemore

#8. Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Burt Shavitz

#9. No one has ever accused me of being ambitious.

Burt Shavitz

#10. A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.

Burt Shavitz

#11. Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#12. It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other people's experiences. Often one has to make do with seeds; the germs of what might have been, had one's life been different.

Virginia Woolf

#13. I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

Burt Shavitz

#14. My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.

Burt Shavitz

#15. The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.

Burt Shavitz

#16. You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?

Burt Shavitz

#17. Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!

Burt Shavitz

#18. I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

Burt Shavitz

#19. Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brinkley

#20. I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.

Burt Shavitz

#21. What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

Burt Shavitz

#22. Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

Burt Shavitz

#23. You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.

Burt Shavitz

#24. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

Marlon James

#25. If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.

Burt Shavitz

#26. I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.

Burt Shavitz

#27. When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams