Brian Eno Quotes

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Brian Eno Roxy Music

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• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Law
  • City

• Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Good
  • Fun

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • America
  • Best
  • Better

• I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Way
  • Leadership
  • Reminds

• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

  

  Saadi
  • Together
  • Sad
  • Rose

• There are three levels of self to consider: the proto, the core, and the autobiographical. The first two are shared with many, many other species, and they are really coming out largely of the brain stem and whatever there is of cortex in those species.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Brain

• Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Suicide

• Soundlessly, shadow with shadow, we wrestled together,Till the grey dawn.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Together
  • Shadow

• There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Power

• I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Life
  • Listening

• Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Empowering
  • Ironic

• I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Emotional

• Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Together
  • Military

• The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

  

  Edwin Powell Hubble
  • Great

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.

  

  Dana Perino
  • School
  • Change
  • Year

• I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

  

  Joan Van Ark
  • Great
  • Friends

• My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music