Dickey Betts Quotes
Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
Quotes to Explore
-
That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
-
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
-
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
-
I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
-
Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
-
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.
-
I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
-
Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be.
-
As a woman, I have no country
-
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
-
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
-
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
-
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
-
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
-
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
-
Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
