Kris Kristofferson Quotes

As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.

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• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Day
  • Week
  • Grandfather

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Learn
  • Attitude
  • Questions

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Remember

• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Past

• I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Hands
  • Green
  • Generation

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Realize

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Right
  • Possession
  • Smiling

• I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Real

• As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Black
  • White
  • Journalist

• He caun ne'er be bothered but maun e'er be waked. If there is a future in every past that is present Quis est qui non novit quinnigan and Qui quae quot at Quinnigan's Quake! Stump! His producers are they not his consumers? Your exagmination round his factification for incamination of a warping process. Declaim! (496.34 - 497.3)

  

  James Joyce
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Important
  • Desire