Jimmy Chamberlin Quotes

I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins

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• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Book
  • Group
  • Tend

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Man
  • Need
  • Call

• Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Constitution

• I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • You
  • Painting

• 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Politics

• I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Limits

• I don't take a scene or word for granted.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Word
  • Scene
  • Take

• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Thought

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Romantic

• She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Great
  • She

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

  

  Frederick Pollock
  • Pretty

• You won't believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • God
  • Believe
  • Choices

• I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Environment

• Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

  

  Barry Hughart

• Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

  

  William Osler
  • Today
  • Past
  • Energy

• I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins