Joe Cocker Quotes

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

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• For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • God
  • Song

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

  

  K. Flay
  • Weird
  • Perspective
  • My Own

• I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Years
  • Protection

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Why
  • Name
  • Hindsight

• I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist
  • Either

• I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Hair

• The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Police
  • Stuff
  • Academy

• Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mistake
  • Mistakes
  • Rise

• Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Confidence

• The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Sad
  • They Say

• Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Football
  • Basketball

• A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Game
  • Team
  • Moving

• I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

  

  Joan Collins
  • People
  • Attitude

• When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Mom
  • Bible

• I thought they were supposed to pick teams, not conferences. Last year, the Big West got two berths because we deserved to go and Utah State won the tournament. This year, they were almost over fair. Utah State and Air Force had to be bubble teams, and if you have four or five bubble teams, you pick two and two or three don't get in. Cincinnati should have gotten in, but Syracuse ended up winning the Big East tournament. The Big East still got eight teams in. Cincinnati kicked itself out.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Winning
  • Teams
  • Tournament

• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Ocean

• The man of wisdom is the man of years.

  

  Edward Young
  • Wisdom

• I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

  

  Joe Cocker