Trent Reznor Quotes

MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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• I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Mind
  • Understand
  • Nobody

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Gift

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.

  

  Parker Harris
  • School
  • Remember
  • First

• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Strive
  • Conquer

• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Think
  • First
  • Very

• There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Song
  • Pressure
  • Bond

• We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Experience
  • Point
  • View

• When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • You
  • Strategy
  • Investment

• Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Man
  • Me

• Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Thanks
  • Resilience

• The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Desire

• When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence

  

  Patanjali

• I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

  

  Dinah Manoff
  • Good
  • Luck

• The notion of "system" has gained central importance in contemporary science, society and life. In many fields of endeavor, the necessity of a "systems approach" or "systems thinking" is emphasized, new professions called "systems engineering," "systems analysis" and the like have come into being, and there can be little doubt that this this concept marks a genuine, necessary, and consequential development in science and world-view.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Science

• I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

  

  Gayle King
  • Important
  • Hate
  • Exercise

• But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Made
  • Constitution
  • Western

• New York is a very tricky city. I find it very noisy. It's a jungle, and it's very stressful at times, but I'm ready for it.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • City

• MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails