quotes about Mean Streets

“In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.”

Source : Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber

“Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.”

“The happy man's without a shirt.”

“They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!”

“Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.”

“It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.”

“Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we receive as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice.”

“In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father? Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him.”

“I'm pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn't practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all over the place. He does it by practicing free throws. That's the attitude I take: You don't get better at running by doing everything but running. You get better by running.”

“It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.”

Source : E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.151, Simon and Schuster