Patti Scialfa Quotes

I don't really sell many records.

Patti Scialfa

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• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Exercise

• I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Just

• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Son
  • President

• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Small
  • Day
  • River

• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  

  Parker Posey
  • She
  • Movie
  • Star

• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Earth

• What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Family
  • Future

• I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Complicated

• One year, I was a go-go girl for Halloween, and I got all this glitter eye shadow, my hair was poufy with braids, I was wearing all these different colors and fake eyelashes that went all the way up to my eyebrows. I totally enjoy the whole Halloween feel.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• We know the climate is changing. We don't know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the realm of possibility.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Changing

• I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Think
  • Animal
  • Totem

• Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Reality
  • Mad

• Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• Now, of my threescore years and ten,Twenty will not come again,And take from seventy springs a score,It only leaves me fifty more.And since to look at things in bloomFifty springs are little room,About the woodlands I will goTo see the cherry hung with snow.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Snow

• One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • People
  • Writing

• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Love
  • Paradise
  • Satisfying

• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Share
  • Exciting

• Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • World
  • Fashion

• I don't really sell many records.

  

  Patti Scialfa