Elliott Smith Quotes
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
Quotes to Explore
-
Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
-
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
-
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
-
A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
-
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
-
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
-
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
-
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
-
It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
-
Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
-
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
-
If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
-
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-
Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
-
Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
-
People always give me styling products and stuff.
-
We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.
-
When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
-
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
-
In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
-
I don't feel any warmth towards politics. I'm with the forever opposition party.
-
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
