Keith Richards Quotes

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Long
  • Economy
  • Admire

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • Caring

• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Father
  • Prison
  • Electricity

• When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Wine

• My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Fashion
  • Better
  • My Own

• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Mind
  • American
  • Reading

• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• At 12 years old, I raised a premature baby cow on our farm because her mom had died. I bottle-fed it every day, let it suck on my chin, and babied it until it was stable.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Mom
  • Baby

• There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

  

  Amanda Marshall
  • Bad
  • Management

• The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Beer

• That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Winning

• In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Future
  • Past
  • Collages

• An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

  

  Alec Issigonis
  • Why
  • Expert
  • Tells

• It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Interest
  • Expert

• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Experience
  • Actress
  • Expert

• The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Knows
  • Nothing
  • Expert

• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  

  John Milton
  • Points
  • Grammar
  • Expert

• How sweet is that? I know I'm no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name is way high on my "indicators of humbleness" list (not that I have one, but I totally have a starting point now).

  

  Ally Carter
  • Language
  • Forgotten
  • Expert

• Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Discipline
  • Cured
  • Beatings

• I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Life
  • Cancer

• Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Confident

• It's interesting to see what's going on with physics these days because they're starting to come out with stuff that sounds remarkably like Buddhism and even more specifically like the ancient Hindu Vedas. Physics isn't necessarily saying the exact same thing but I think eventually it will merge.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Interesting
  • Physics
  • Buddhism

• A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Smile

• I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Expert
  • Beatings