Kurt Vile Quotes
That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
Quotes to Explore
-
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
-
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
-
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
-
I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
-
Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
-
And that's the way it is.
-
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
-
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
-
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
-
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
-
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
-
If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
-
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
-
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
-
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
-
The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
-
My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
-
A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
-
'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
-
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
-
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
-
That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.
