Christopher Cross Quotes

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

Christopher Cross

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• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rules

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Work
  • God
  • Strong

• You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Work
  • Job
  • Relationship

• I think tokenization eventually means everyone becomes an investor once all the regulatory issues are worked out - from your computer itself to a kid in India messing around with $10.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Think
  • Kid
  • India

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dignity

• Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Gullible

• The plan is to make money, and we know the fans are going to ask for mixtapes, and those mixtapes are going to hit. So when we put a tape out, we have more money coming in, that's why we work hard at it.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Book
  • Stories
  • See

• In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Experience
  • Society

• I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Past

• I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Important
  • Win

• The girl's mouth was chapped, tight and pinched, her skin dry. Mama would say she looked woebegone, but as Bird looked at her eyes, the word she thought of was desperate.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Power
  • Free

• All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Tour
  • Be Able

• As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Country
  • Team
  • Spirit

• I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • War
  • October

• The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Princess
  • Saint
  • Uncomfortable

• I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

  

  Christopher Cross