Simple Truths

Simple Truths

I’m here
to find the simple truths
that I knew
as a child.

The dogs make a game
of me,
the cats curl
and sleep
upon my body.
The daffodils await
the rising of the sun.
They draw their color
from the world
arriving.
The world I watch
now
takes its color
from the setting moon.

These February trees
excite me.
I crave
their dark and frozen zig-zags,
the hardened lightning strokes
of trunk, leader,
limb and branch.
They pierce the moon,
seem to snare it,
over-lace it,
hold it fast -
but look again
and the moon has moved.
The bare trees darken further
at the rising of the sun.
My hands know
this simple way
of waving and releasing,
too,
but too often I want
to hold onto
the passing things.
What is this restlessness?

A candle burns inside
the house.
It represents things
I cannot name.
The spaces in the weaving,
the colors I have yet
to see.
It also speaks to me
of the way that fear
takes loving hands
and turns them
into weapons.
The mysteries of anger,
joy and sorrow,
love.

Here comes the sun.
A mockingbird screams.
A shaking leaf transforms
into a mourning dove;
an explosion of flight.
The river below
has the look of ice,
spilled from the dawn
and frozen.

And what of intentions?
Do they spill from the sun,
from the moon;
do they rise out
of the wide space
in between?
Do we find them,
recognize them,
or create them?
I need gloves;
I type without them.
I need money;
I work.
I need love;
I share it
where I can.

Every tree, bush, stone, dog, person,
is a mystery deeper
then I can fathom.
All the particles of being
dance
to a sound
the whole
makes.

I am only a moving part
of the dancing machine.
Oil me,
I am squeaking.
I try
and tune myself
and listen.
I try
to catch the rhythm
and move
deliberately,
in keeping with the pace
and pulse
and measure
of the music that moves
through me.

I think more of my ancestors,
I say,
“I love you”,
more often.
I look differently
at my mother,
my father,
my son.
My friends are intriguing,
strange, mysterious
and enchanting.

My hands absorb
and hold
the sunshine.
I feel it
circulating.
The moon makes me turgid.
It rocks me.
In the rise and fall
I see
the flotsam and jetsam
of my life.

Wreckage and raw material
are the gifts
of the currents and tides.
We draw beauty in
with our eyes,
and our senses.
We find it
and recognize it.
We hold it up
and name it,
call it our own.
We set it down
and wonder
where we left it.

There is beauty
in hatred,
love, grief, and war.
In the way the morning comes,
the people go.
Fear and cruelty
are passing.
Love carries
and bears up
under it all.

We all know this.
Our stories will be
spun out,
and all our stories,
all that we have ever known
and done
will be recycled.
No other thing
makes sense.

Rick Mobbs January 2008

Dreamtime

Dreamtime

I asked the man
who stood beside the child
and held her hand,
what he called her.

Both of them were muffled
in canvas clothing;
rough,
shapeless clothing worn
to soft and muted earth tones.

He seemed to be wearing
what had been
a military uniform;
one fit to blend him
into a summer forest
in a temperate zone.

And temperate
and mild
he had become,
it seemed to me,
even as the uniform
he wore
had lost its strength
of color,
so that he now
stood out
like a pillar
in this winter forest,
among these bare trees.

I wondered if
there had been something
of that mildness
in him
all along,
even in the days
of carrying a rifle
up and down the mountains.

“I call her,
Found along the long march home,
with winter in her eyes,”
he answered.

Somehow I knew
that neither of them
sensed a threat
in me.
I knelt
and took the girl’s hand,
her left hand,
and held it between mine.
Her hand was cold,
so cold!

“Do you want to go home?” I asked her.

She was small,
barely half his size,
if that.
She was bundled
in scraps of canvas
rudely sewn together
with bits of string
and soft wire.
She wore a rope,
worn and silky,
as a tie around her waist.
A hat
made of bird wings
and moss
covered her head
and trailed down her neck.

I looked into her eyes
and immediately wished
I had not.
I have never seen such eyes!
The crystal clear cornea
was a liquid skin
stretched across a place
where weight meant
nothing,
time meant nothing;
and the something
that was there
was as far away
as the moon.
In her eyes floated everything –
earth, moon, trees,
even this man beside her,
and me.

She turned her head
slightly
to look at her friend.
As she shifted her gaze,
snow flurries rose
from the bottoms
of her eyes
the same way they do
inside a glass sphere
containing a winter scene.
I could see
the snow drifting
in liquid suspension
and I wondered if perhaps
I had stumbled upon
the spirit of winter.

“Sweetheart,” I said to her
and she shifted her eyes
back to me.
“Are you cold?”

She shook her head.

“Are you warm?”

Again she shook her head.

I released her hand
and it rested
in the air
for a moment
before she raised it
to the man
who had named her,
Found.

There was a spot of color
in her palm
and he cradled her hand
in his own
and began to rub
the color in.
A blush of rose appeared
and spread to her limbs,
her face,
her cheeks
and the silent woods
echoed
with the sound
of a beating heart
coming back to life.
Her tears came then
and spilled from her eyes,
instead of into them.
I was mesmerized.
I don’t know how long
he rubbed that spot
of color in her palm,
or how long she wept.

The man thanked me
and said
he would take her home
now.
She was sobbing
and clutching at his coat.
He lifted her
into his arms
and she threw hers
around his neck.
Her tears darkened the collar
of his old, worn overcoat.

He adjusted her weight
and as he was turning
to go back up the mountain
in search
of the road home,
he saw me staring
at my hand
in disbelief.

“Don’t worry,” he said.
“It’s a gift.”

Rick Mobbs 2008

Oh, Where Did That Voice Go?

Painting and poetry by Rick Mobbs

Oh, where did that voice go?
Where did I put it?

there is an old man
in a gutter
and he calls his
voice his daughter
and he sings -

come to me, girl,
come to me, girl,
I miss you so badly
I feel so lonely
come to me, please,
come home, please,
won’t you
come home, please
I’m lost here
without you…

And the trees sing
every evening
but the old man
can’t hear them
because he’s
not listening,
no, he’s
not listening…

Rick Mobbs January 2008

Why You Drink So Much, Baby?

Painting and poetry by Rick Mobbs

Why you drink so much, baby?

Why you drink so much baby?
You make people worry,
alla time damn you fuck and fight
an you drink too much baby.

Sometime he love you baby.
Hanging all damn time on the wall
arms pinned, headache
feet hurt
too damn high
an wondering god damn when it gonna end?

Two thousand years they hide
a piece of him in Istanbul.
Constantine did it
an he comin back to get it.
Cause he love you baby.

Rick Mobbs January 2008

Leeks and Love

Painting and Concept by Rick Mobbs

Leeks and Love

She stands there
short and stoop-shouldered,
the large white chef’s hat
softly squatting
on her small head;
her silver locks long
and pulled back
into a soft bun,
tied gently
with a garland
of white daisies—
her large blue eyes twinkling
with kindness,
with eyebrows raised
in anxious anticipation
of you bravely
taking a taste
of her amorphous white bubbling brew,
thrust forward
in her strong old hands
in that smooth wooden spoon;
an aged face,
but the skin is smooth,
almost youthful
and only carrying
shallow wrinkles.

She looks familiar,
like a maiden aunt,
or your stepfather’s
grandmother,
cooking joyfully
in a Cajun frying pan.

Yes, this cook may appear
a bit witchy
in the deep shadows
of her kitchen,
but no,
for me she could just as easily be
wistful, wise, and wonderful
as she brewed up
a frothy batch
of white light,
of succor,
of hope;
offering up
vanilla dreams
and tapioca textures.

So relax
and fully comprehend
the tall horns
of whiteness,
the cosmic horseshoe,
standing tall
behind her—
if she be a witch,
she be a white one,
a unique entity
of goodness,
humor,
and positive resonance
radiating love
hidden in the heat
of her cuisine.

I tell you
there is nothing here
that smacks of darkness,
newt’s eyes,
lizard’s tail,
raven feathers,
or cat’s whiskers.

She offers up
a steaming spoon
of the whitest puree,
and I will put it
to my lips,
and take a taste,
for today I prefer
the light.

Glenn Buttkus June 28, 2008

The Dancer In My Belly

Painting by Rick Mobbs

the dancer in my belly
January 7, 2008 by rick mobbs

1.

You can’t see the dancer in my belly, can you, mister?
I didn’t think so. And I don’t have the icon to describe,
much less, to explain her.
You say, perhaps the moon has brought her?
(She’s in the fire, in the trees, in the shadows.)
You say she’s not real.
I say, no, but she has tiny feet, and hands,
and they are sharp and hurt like hell.

2.

I move to the edge of the woods,
find a house, close a chapter, start another.
I live beside a river, outside a small town.
All day all night I hear the sounds of the ocean,
the squirrels and geese, frogs and cats, chickens,
lizards, dogs, hawks, herons, ibises, bats.
I have plenty of company.

3.

Jill works at the video store.
She wears her hair in dreadlocks.
Five movies, five days, five dollars, she says.
I say I’d like to order something special.
Okay, so tell me, says Jill.

I say, she should be about so tall, single, available,
a little bit homely, a little bit beautiful.
Not too young, not too old, talented,
creative, strange, brave, and capable.
Jill says, strange? How strange? Strange as me?
Or is different okay?

I say sure, different, that might be okay…
just not deeply troubled.
She looks at me. Where do you think strange comes from?

She tells me: My boyfriend overdosed on heroin
and died, the night before we were to leave the city..
Last year someone killed my sister.
Here, in this backwater fucking county
and no one is looking for the killer.

New York spit me from an empty and I skidded to a stop
in a place where every second person is named Varnum,
Varnam, Bellamy, or Holden,
and all of them think I have bugs in my hair.
She hands me my tape. We share the same birthday.
We were made for each other.

We are still a long way from hurricane season.
This year, I want to be prepared.
A woman enters the store.
She’s beautiful, but hardly strange.
Jill unwraps a piece of candy.
I’ll see if I can think of someone, she says.

4.

You are in the fire again when get home.
Get out of the fire, I say.
It’s my fire, and I don’t want you there.
You say, leave me alone.

I settle in. The cats come home
I set up to write; it’s time to make up stories.
The moon is a yo-yo rising over the marshes.
I don’t have to look, I know it goes up and down,
I know it’s played by a left-handed woman who waits.
She plays with the river, the tides, the ocean.
This close to the ocean, the river has perceptible tides.
They go up and down, up and down.

5.

What shall I do about you? I ask.
(She’s in my fire, she has no manners.
When I try to speak to her she vanishes.)
I say it to the air, where devils dance.
Sometimes I mock them with the damper
just to hear them roar.

Now she’s dancing closer to the door.
You are pathetic, I say.
She hears that I’m addressing her and vanishes.

6.

Heart is courage, I say to the empty door. Heart is fire.
Heart is why we love, heart is why we go to war.
I study the empty place where my heart lived.
I say, you can leave any time you want.

The flame is empty of your image now.
My prayers are quieter.

We know, by theory and by observation
that people are the better off for talking.
Here, take this icon. Your silence kills me.

Rick Mobbs January 2008

The Daughter

Painting by the incomparable Rick Mobbs

the daughter

we crossed your love with my desire
i spun my faith through your fire
and yours spun through my water.
in the hills her soul found ours,
her voice was mist and trills.
we knew her by her laughter.

Rick Mobbs

Rick still waits for his princess, and we wait with him.

Glenn

Of Wood, Water, and Touch

Photo, feelings, prose and poetry by Alex Shapiro

Of Wood, Water, and Touch

Of wood, water, and touch.
Looking out,
I like how the branches
frame the sunset
with a heart shape.

That’s the lure
of this spot
on the globe.
It pulls
at the emotions
and possesses a serenity
that will calm you,
no matter what your day
may have been like.
It’s hard
to have a stressful day
here.

The view is what
accompanied
my eyes
at dinner last night.

Charles and I
went over
to our friend Mark’s
magical indentation
in the land
on the northeast shoulder
of the island.

His home clings
to rocks
that cling
to tree roots
that cling
to more rocks
that cling
to the sea.

Water rhythms beat
quietly
under the deck
and my gaze
cannot help scanning
beyond the humans
next to me,
out
to an ever-shifting palette
of space and color.

Alex Shapiro June 2008

OMG, I Am A Poet

OMG, I've written another poem!
I'm not sure I agree with Butch about that.
Poems are supposed to be incomprehensible assemblages of words and phrases that just might as well mean...well, anything.
Seems to me that anything that just says something is merely prose.

Think on it, just what in the heck is E.A.P. yapping about with his silly ass talking Raven?

Huh?

Most of the other "great" poets read like the OED run through a shredder.

I can understand what Glenn and Janet and Alex are talking about.

It's all very nice and I love it but it's comprehensible, therefore it must be something other than poetry.

Doug Palmer, expounding on his good fortune and hidden assets over on FEEL FREE TO LAUGH.

DeForest Kelley Said

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.
DeForest Kelley

I had fallen in love with California.
DeForest Kelley

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
DeForest Kelley

I have considered myself a mature actor.
DeForest Kelley

I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
DeForest Kelley

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.
DeForest Kelley

I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.
DeForest Kelley

I once aged 90 years old in one episode.
DeForest Kelley

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.
DeForest Kelley

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.
DeForest Kelley

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
DeForest Kelley

My ambition is peace and perfection.
DeForest Kelley

My father started me singing in church.
DeForest Kelley

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.
DeForest Kelley

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.
DeForest Kelley

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DeForest Kelley

What I truly miss the most is having sufficient time to do all the things that need to be done around the house and for our friends.
DeForest Kelley

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.
DeForest Kelley

Franz Kafka Said Smiling

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz Kafka

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Franz Kafka

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
Franz Kafka

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz Kafka

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
Franz Kafka

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Franz Kafka

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka

Evil is whatever distracts.
Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz Kafka

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Franz Kafka

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
Franz Kafka

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Franz Kafka

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
Franz Kafka

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz Kafka

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz Kafka

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
Franz Kafka

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
Franz Kafka

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Franz Kafka

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Franz Kafka

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz Kafka

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
Franz Kafka

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
Franz Kafka

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz Kafka

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka

Religions get lost as people do.
Franz Kafka

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
Franz Kafka

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Franz Kafka

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
Franz Kafka

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Franz Kafka

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
Franz Kafka

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
Franz Kafka

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Franz Kafka

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
Franz Kafka

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz Kafka

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz Kafka

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Franz Kafka

We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka

Writers speak stench.
Franz Kafka

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Pauline Kael Said

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Pauline Kael

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Pauline Kael

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Pauline Kael

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Pauline Kael

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
Pauline Kael

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Pauline Kael

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Pauline Kael

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.
Pauline Kael

Trash has given us an appetite for art.
Pauline Kael

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Pauline Kael

Carl Jung Said

A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music.
Carl Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Carl Jung

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Jung

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
Carl Jung

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Jung

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

Ashley Judd Said

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.
Ashley Judd

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.
Ashley Judd

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.
Ashley Judd

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
Ashley Judd

And then all of a sudden, it was time for me to shoot the singing stuff and I just lacked confidence, so those were not my favorite days.
Ashley Judd

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.
Ashley Judd

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.
Ashley Judd

I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
Ashley Judd

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.
Ashley Judd

I enjoy other things too, but yoga is the fastest and most complete way to get fit, and there are so many beautiful instructors out there.
Ashley Judd

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
Ashley Judd

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
Ashley Judd

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
Ashley Judd

I just think that you have to be very protective of your own world. The self can be very inundated and if you're porous, it can become problematic.
Ashley Judd

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.
Ashley Judd

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.
Ashley Judd

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.
Ashley Judd

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
Ashley Judd

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
Ashley Judd

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.
Ashley Judd

I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.
Ashley Judd

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
Ashley Judd

It's so wrong to yearn so much, that you miss the joy of what you're living. That's definitely something I've learned and am willing to share.
Ashley Judd

It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
Ashley Judd

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.
Ashley Judd

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.
Ashley Judd

One thing I did with my dad, which was very dramatic, was play outdoor hide-and-seek. We would play with grown-ups, and they took it so seriously.
Ashley Judd

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
Ashley Judd

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
Ashley Judd

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
Ashley Judd

Some Kentucky fans are a little more subdued.
Ashley Judd

The movie is wonderful and London is the greenest city on earth. It has the most parks and the rose gardens were in bloom while we were there.
Ashley Judd

Well, in the mornings when I wake up, I don't rash into things. I write, and that comes and goes. I'm in a heavy writing phase at the moment.
Ashley Judd

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Ashley Judd

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
Ashley Judd

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
Ashley Judd

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
Ashley Judd

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.
Ashley Judd

Chief Joseph Eloquently Said

chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
Chief Joseph

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
Chief Joseph

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
Chief Joseph

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
Chief Joseph

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Chief Joseph

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
Chief Joseph

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph

Good words will not give me back my children.
Chief Joseph

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
Chief Joseph

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
Chief Joseph

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
Chief Joseph

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
Chief Joseph

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
Chief Joseph

I know that my race must change.
Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
Chief Joseph

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
Chief Joseph

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
Chief Joseph

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
Chief Joseph

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
Chief Joseph

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
Chief Joseph

I want the white people to understand my people.
Chief Joseph

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
Chief Joseph

I will speak with a straight tongue.
Chief Joseph

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
Chief Joseph

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
Chief Joseph

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Chief Joseph

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
Chief Joseph

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
Chief Joseph

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Chief Joseph

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
Chief Joseph

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
Chief Joseph

My people were divided about surrendering.
Chief Joseph

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.
Chief Joseph

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Chief Joseph

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.
Chief Joseph

The Indian race are waiting and praying.
Chief Joseph

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Chief Joseph

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
Chief Joseph

We ask to be recognized as men.
Chief Joseph

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
Chief Joseph

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
Chief Joseph

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
Chief Joseph

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
Chief Joseph

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
Chief Joseph

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
Chief Joseph

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy to possess everything the Indian had.
Chief Joseph

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.
Chief Joseph

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
Chief Joseph

Words do not pay for my dead people.
Chief Joseph

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph

Lyndon B. Johnson Actually Said

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. Johnson

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Every President wants to do right.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm the only president you've got.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
Lyndon B. Johnson

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
Lyndon B. Johnson

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Lyndon B. Johnson

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. Johnson

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. Johnson

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Lyndon B. Johnson

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
Lyndon B. Johnson

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Lyndon B. Johnson

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Norman Jewison Said

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
Norman Jewison

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
Norman Jewison

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
Norman Jewison

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.
Norman Jewison

But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.
Norman Jewison

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.
Norman Jewison

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.
Norman Jewison

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.
Norman Jewison

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
Norman Jewison

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
Norman Jewison

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
Norman Jewison

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
Norman Jewison

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.
Norman Jewison

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
Norman Jewison

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.
Norman Jewison

I think you get better as you get older.
Norman Jewison

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.
Norman Jewison

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
Norman Jewison

I work with a lot of movie stars.
Norman Jewison

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
Norman Jewison

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
Norman Jewison

I'm just a storyteller.
Norman Jewison

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
Norman Jewison

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Norman Jewison

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
Norman Jewison

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Norman Jewison

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.
Norman Jewison

The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.
Norman Jewison

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
Norman Jewison

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.
Norman Jewison

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
Norman Jewison

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
Norman Jewison

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.
Norman Jewison

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
Norman Jewison

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
Norman Jewison

Joan Jett Sounds Off

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
Joan Jett

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
Joan Jett

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
Joan Jett

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.
Joan Jett

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.
Joan Jett

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Joan Jett

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
Joan Jett

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
Joan Jett

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.
Joan Jett

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
Joan Jett

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
Joan Jett

I love to engage with people who come to see us.
Joan Jett

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.
Joan Jett

I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.
Joan Jett

I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
Joan Jett

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Joan Jett

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
Joan Jett

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
Joan Jett

I would love to do more acting. I've just never had the opportunity to get at scripts, to have the opportunity to show people that I can act.
Joan Jett

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
Joan Jett

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.
Joan Jett

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
Joan Jett

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
Joan Jett

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
Joan Jett

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
Joan Jett

Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
Joan Jett

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.
Joan Jett

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
Joan Jett

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.
Joan Jett

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.
Joan Jett

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.
Joan Jett

We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.
Joan Jett

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
Joan Jett

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
Joan Jett

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.
Joan Jett

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
Joan Jett

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.
Joan Jett

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.
Joan Jett

Jim Jarmusch Speaks

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
Jim Jarmusch

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
Jim Jarmusch

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Jim Jarmusch

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.
Jim Jarmusch

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
Jim Jarmusch

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.
Jim Jarmusch

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
Jim Jarmusch

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
Jim Jarmusch

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
Jim Jarmusch

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
Jim Jarmusch

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.
Jim Jarmusch

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.
Jim Jarmusch

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
Jim Jarmusch

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
Jim Jarmusch

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
Jim Jarmusch

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.
Jim Jarmusch

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
Jim Jarmusch

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.
Jim Jarmusch

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Jim Jarmusch

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
Jim Jarmusch

I was very lucky and eventually showed the film, got some good responses, and some people helped to make the longer version of the film.
Jim Jarmusch

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.
Jim Jarmusch

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.
Jim Jarmusch

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
Jim Jarmusch

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
Jim Jarmusch

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Jim Jarmusch

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.
Jim Jarmusch

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
Jim Jarmusch

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.
Jim Jarmusch