Jeff Buckley Quotes

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.

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• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Write
  • Most

• To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Me
  • Single

• Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Job
  • Help
  • Talent

• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Our

• The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • World
  • Long
  • Relationship

• That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • New York
  • Cocktail

• The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Looks
  • Hard Work

• I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Political
  • Black

• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Failure

• I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Eyes
  • Morning
  • Learn

• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

  

  Tacitus
  • Laws
  • Most
  • Corrupt

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Character
  • True

• My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Time
  • Different
  • Comedy

• My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Night

• Ideally, I'd love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as... dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Dog
  • Math

• I have four horses, and they are my everything.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Everything
  • Four
  • Horses

• Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Acting

• Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Dog