Brian Eno Quotes

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Brain

• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Promises

• If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Tell
  • Please

• We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

  

  Ed Markey
  • World
  • Know
  • Lost

• My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Up
  • Time
  • Science

• If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Government

• I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

  

  Janet Evanovich

• One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana

• I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

  

  Danny McBride
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I enjoyed playing, and I've got a full and happy life now, so it's not like I'm looking back longingly at my time in football.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches... I was more James Stewart than James Bond.

  

  James Marsden
  • Live
  • School
  • High

• When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

  

  Marsha Blackburn

• Conservatory training is so much. There's so much emphasis on playing perfectly in tune and being perfect and doing everything as it's written.

  

  Lucia Micarelli
  • Perfect
  • Training

• Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more - absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • America
  • France
  • Diplomats

• One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Free
  • Desire

• I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • People
  • Mean
  • Strange

• Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spiritual

• When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Person

• I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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