Mark Hoppus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
-
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
-
My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
-
I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
-
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
-
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
-
I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
-
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
-
If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
-
I don't really see myself as an actor.
-
I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
-
I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
-
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
-
I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
-
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
-
This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.
-
Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.
-
These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.
-
I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings.
-
I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
