David Knopfler Quotes
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
David Knopfler
Dire Straits
Quotes to Explore
People take things so seriously.
Dana Ashbrook
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Felicity Kendal
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
Kara Walker
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
Abby Wambach
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
Salman Khan
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna
Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
Gabby Douglas
If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Victoria Justice
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von Clausewitz
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken
Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
Abagail Johnson
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy
