Doe Quotes - Page 206

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.

But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Ask yourself: Does the action I am considering have any potential for dealing with the wrong and helping the relationship? And is it best for the person at whom I am angry? The two most constructive options are either to confront the person in a helpful way, or to consciously decide to overlook the matter.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.