Brian Jones Quotes

I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

Brian Jones The Rolling Stones

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• I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Honor

• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

  Iman
  • Women
  • Black
  • Beauty

• Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Writing
  • Last
  • Sixteen

• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Car
  • Stress
  • Window

• My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Wife
  • Habit
  • Flame

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I don't talk in ifs.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Talk
  • Ifs

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Black
  • Green

• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Words
  • Prejudice

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hope

• There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on.

  

  Lee Kun-hee
  • People
  • Future
  • Technology

• I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • People
  • World

• Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets.

  

  Neal Cassady
  • Red
  • Drink
  • Eat

• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Playing