Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guillermo del Toro

I think that in the past, in the '50s and '60s, after the existentialists and beatniks and hippie movements, the big deal was, Don't sell out. We live in a society that by virtue of the speed we communicate and sell, everything sells. The danger is buying in; that your concern becomes success, rather than fulfillment. They're two different beasts, and my feeling is that you should seek fulfillment. You should not measure your worth in how much you have or how popular you are, but how happy you are with what you do.

Greg Jackson

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Scott Peterson

I could get new pants if I weren't such a hippie freak.

Jack Kerouac

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Grace Slick

It's a bit difficult to get hippies organized into anything, but I think if they get annoyed enough with the stuff that's going down, they're capable of showing up. So anything they consider important, they'll be there.

Glenn Frey

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

J. G. Ballard

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Alex Miller

They were the hippie pins of the '60s,

Jonathan Lethem

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Phillip Lim

There is a secret hippie within me.

Jimmy Buffett

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

Joseph Wambaugh

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

Penelope Cruz

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free.

Paulo Costanzo

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

John Lydon

I've always despised the hippies.

John Lennon

Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

John Lennon

Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world.

John Lennon

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Josh Hartnett

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

Joy Bryant

I love flowy hippie dresses.

Margot Robbie

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

Nick Harkaway

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.

Neil Young

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

Neil Young

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

Joe Strummer

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Patton Oswalt

We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe.

P. J. O'Rourke

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

Mary McCarthy

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.