James Vincent McMorrow Quotes
I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
-
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
-
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
-
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
-
As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
-
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
-
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
-
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
-
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
-
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
-
I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
-
If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
-
My education was very tough.
-
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
-
If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
-
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
-
Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.
-
A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
-
Led Zeppelin didn't get that kind of Beatles screaming. We had a more sort of macho crowd. But I remember once in the early days of The Yardbirds, we were playing on an ice rink, and the stage was mobbed by screaming girls. I had my clothes torn off me. That's a really uncomfortable experience, let me tell you.
-
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
-
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
-
I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.
