James Mercer Quotes

I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant.

James Mercer Broken Bells

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• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • See
  • Anyone

• Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Woman's faith and woman's trust,Write the characters in dust.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Faith
  • Trust

• How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.

  

  Octavia E. Butler

• But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Experience
  • Appreciation

• Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Power
  • Help
  • Religious

• Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.

  Chaka Fattah
  • America
  • Future
  • Growing

• I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Die
  • Weird

• Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

  

  David Hackworth
  • Real
  • Enemy

• I'm committed as governor to valuing and nurturing our relationships with our friends to the south.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Friends

• The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Fence

• Donald Trump is a dream for business people like me. I think Trump's going to make pharma great again.

  

  Martin Shkreli
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Time

• Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Attention
  • Hand

• Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

  

  Ken Harrelson
  • Job
  • Baseball

• Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Gold
  • Godmother

• I don't like a lot of attention. That's kind of who I am at heart. So I see everything, the people circulating around me and a lot of people know me - it kind of feels like a heavy weight sometimes.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • People
  • Heart
  • Attention

• When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.

  

  Mark Frost

• Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Fire
  • Dreams
  • Edges

• I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells