Dar Williams Quotes

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Heart
  • You
  • Know

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

  

  Xavi
  • Game
  • Player
  • Better

• What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Government
  • Justice

• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Dance
  • Rap
  • Anything

• Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• My goal is to continue to act and still be a professional kiteboarder.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Goal
  • Professional
  • Act

• I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • School
  • Loved
  • Classmates

• I want to thank the fans so much for their support through the years. Even as undeserving as I was, they were a big part of my being able to move forward and put my life back together. They're the greatest. They're the ones who make the stars. For their support throughout my career and today, I love them and thank them.

  

  Lex Luger
  • Life
  • Together
  • Today

• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Striving

• I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Father

• I have to believe that most people know that 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You' is my song. But the reaction we get from the audience at 'Jersey Boys' is that they didn't remember how many hits we had. A lot of 'Oh yeah, I forgot they did that song.' We had 20 Top 10 hits in the U.S... people forget.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Believe
  • Remember

• You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Good
  • High
  • Song

• The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Song