Kurt Elling Quotes

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

Kurt Elling

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• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Memories
  • Awesome

• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Memories

• I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Memories
  • Clothes
  • Sentimentalist

• Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Think
  • House

• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Past
  • Memories

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Effort
  • Winning

• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Passion
  • Memories
  • Chaos

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Team
  • Style
  • Design

• One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• As hard as I have tried to remember the exact moment when I fell in love with God, I cannot do it. My earliest memories are bathed in a kind of golden light that seemed to embrace me as surely as my mother's arms. The divine presence was strongest outdoors, and most palpable when I was alone.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Love
  • Remember

• It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Writing
  • Strange
  • Point

• While my opponent slanders you as deplorable... I call you hard-working, American patriots.

  

  Donald Trump
  • American

• While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Memories