Kerry Stokes Quotes

You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway.

Kerry Stokes

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• When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Same
  • Guitar

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Singing
  • Discipline
  • Making

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • Power
  • Control

• I don't want to have so many exes.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Many

• The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Great
  • Cancer
  • Walk

• I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Design

• Like a lot of people, I love a bit of blood and gore.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • People
  • Like
  • Blood

• My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Hometown

• There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Ignorance

• All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Cold

• 'You don’t seem the superstitious type.''I’m not,' Ben said. 'I’m careful. There’s a difference.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Country
  • Society
  • Science

• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Writing

• Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Forever

• The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Long
  • Nature

• When something good hits me, I'll use Siri to make a note so I don't forget.

  

  William Gurstelle
  • Forget
  • Use
  • Notes

• Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Interesting
  • Desire
  • Fight

• All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Book
  • Beginning

• Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton

• You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway.

  

  Kerry Stokes