Sorta Like a Rock Star Quotes

“You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Air goes in and out
of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart
brain - and so I am”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm sorta like a rock star to these people.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Sometimes you just have to let crap slide when it comes to adults acting like kids, because that can be a beautiful thing. True? True.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“...I like the way Chee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach, because there is a frickin' reason why Santa Claus is more popular than Jesus nowadays.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“There is only one of me and so many of the people who are not like me, and maybe I'm just an amusing distraction for those other people, Maybe I'm just a freak. A sideshow.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I spread hope.
I'm a hope spreader.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Life goes on,” he says. “Whether we choose to enjoy it or not. So you might as well find a way to enjoy the parts you can.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“As I pedal, I start to get a bad feeling. I start to feel like I have everything all wrong, and that everyone else is right, and all my hopefulness is just childish bullcrap.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“She never laughs or smiles or tells a joke. She reminds me of a robot caked in meat.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“I marvel at her - a woman with stocks and business suits and her own house.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“We cry together- on the couch for different- reasons, but it helps.”
― Matthew quick , Sorta Like a Rock Star

“When I sip, he says, “I just wrote a haiku in the kitchen.” He has a piece of paper in his hand, so I ask, “Can I read it?” He hands it to me. It reads: THE SUN SETTING THROUGH PINE TREES AT THE EDGE OF TOWN MAKES ME SQUINT AND SMILE “It’s good,” I say. “But it doesn’t capture the present moment.” “Maybe sometimes—on special occasions—every so often, it is best to capture a different moment, maybe, when the present moment is not the right moment for you. It is sometimes nice to think that more moments are always coming. Always. Like the moments when you come to visit me.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“FLOWERS ARE IN THE GROUND, WHERE WE CANNOT SEE THE FUTURE WONDERMENT”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“That no matter how much evidence we have to prove that life is meaningless, we should believe that life makes some sort of sense—and that the story of Jesus is a good story, simply because it teaches us that we should be kind to others. That we should do whatever it takes, that we should sing soul music if it makes the lives of others better. That we should try to be good people, and love everyone.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Life always gets harder toward the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Another thing: Mom’s taste in men is akin to a crackhead’s taste in crack cocaine. Any old hit will do. And it sucks for all nearby loved ones (me) when mi madre is hitting the man-pipe again, because she sorta loses her frickin’ mind—to put it bluntly.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smile”
― Matthew quick , Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Tell me that you won't live your life afraid, but will grow up and live a better life than your mother could ever imagine.”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Writing
Haikus one
After the
Other,
Knowing
Only the
Moment”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Four-leaf
Clover: a
Miracle,
Mutation, or
Happy
Accident?”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“How many
Pieces
Of bread
Separate
These words:
Needy,
Fine,
Wasteful?”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“Flowers
Are in the
Ground,
Where we
Cannot see
The
Future
Wonderment”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star

“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smie”
― Matthew Quick, Sorta Like a Rock Star