Michael Simkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

  • In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

  • I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

  • I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  • There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

  • Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.

  • For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

  • [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  • I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?