Keith Richards Quotes

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones

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• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Work
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Why
  • May
  • Dead

• I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Always
  • Frustration
  • Encouraging

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Home
  • Book
  • Year

• GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Geography

• When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Women
  • Change
  • Advertising

• Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Words
  • Single
  • Language

• I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Health
  • Project

• I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Myself
  • Memory
  • Self

• When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Risk
  • Thought
  • Season

• Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

  

  Larry King
  • Day
  • Sports
  • Everyday

• In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reality

• Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Free
  • Fear
  • King

• Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Country

• Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Time
  • Concerns

• My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

  

  Jenson Button
  • School
  • Career

• No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • People
  • Wish
  • Lucky

• No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Women
  • Small

• We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones