Brian Fallon Quotes

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

Brian Fallon

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• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Career

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Work
  • Think
  • Chicago

• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Age

• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Life
  • Father
  • Freedom

• When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Never
  • Idea

• I secretly want to shave my head.

  

  Zendaya
  • Want
  • Head
  • Shave

• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Different
  • Art

• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Missing

• 'There is no true understanding without a certain range of comparison.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • True
  • Understanding

• No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.

  

  Edward Teller

• I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • God
  • Believe

• I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Beach

• Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Friends

• Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Law

• If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Different

• Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Life
  • Air
  • Fame

• When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

  

  Brian Fallon