Chris Cornell Quotes

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

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• Hizbullah is not a militia.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Militia

• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Place
  • Loved
  • Cute

• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Want
  • Never
  • Box

• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Home
  • Me

• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Never
  • Story
  • Dreams

• Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Writing
  • Tennis
  • Bread

• When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Lost
  • Moments
  • Risk

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Young
  • First

• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Bored
  • Sight

• Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Work
  • Think
  • Fine

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • You
  • Chance
  • Overcome

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Search
  • Transparency

• No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Good
  • Book
  • Ever

• In historical and constitutional terms, the recent political status vote in Puerto Rico was a necessary but obviously not decisive step on the road of self-determination leading to full self-government.

  

  Dick Thornburgh
  • Political
  • Road
  • Determination

• It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Live
  • Funny

• Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People

• I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Important