Chris Hillman Quotes
The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
Quotes to Explore
-
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
-
When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
-
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
-
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
-
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
-
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
-
As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
-
The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
-
I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
-
One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
-
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
-
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
-
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
-
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
-
After graduating college, I finally allowed myself to strive for what I loved to do, even if there were no guarantees that I would be able to make a living off of acting. This, combined with my life experiences prior - like stars aligning - led me to this lovely role of Katana within the DC Comics universe.
-
Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
-
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.
-
What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
-
Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.
-
The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.
