Stuff Quotes - Page 8

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.

For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

Selling more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.

...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.

My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.