Dave Van Ronk Quotes

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

Dave Van Ronk

• World
• Music
• Real

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Law
  • Me
  • Rules

• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Party
  • Beach

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Different
  • Character
  • Girl

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Free
  • Humanity
  • Religion

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• 'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

  

  George A. Romero
  • World
  • Movie

• I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • War
  • Islamic

• I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Believe
  • Business
  • City

• When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dad

• If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

  

  Dave Van Ronk
  • World
  • Music
  • Real