Jason Molina Quotes

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

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• I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Childhood

• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
  • Turn

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Goal

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • God
  • May
  • History

• Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Place
  • Stars
  • Hollywood

• My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Write

• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• 'Conversations don't get any better as you get older.'

  

  Banksy

• They all laughed at Christopher ColumbusWhen he said the world was round;They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • World

• Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Most Canadians, if they don't show up for work, they don't get a promotion. … You missed 70 per cent of the votes.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Up
  • Work

• The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Law

• She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She

• I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Want
  • You
  • Fearless

• You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Thinking

• I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Trauma
  • Middle-class
  • Imagey parents

• He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his Estate faster than he gott it; he replyed, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Great

• When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

  

  Jason Molina