Bryce Dessner Quotes
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.Bryce Dessner The National
Quotes to Explore
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
Damon Lindelof -
You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
Magnus Scheving -
My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
Gary Johnson -
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
Taya Kyle -
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke -
To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.
Kate Bosworth -
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
W. C. Fields -
On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
Wanda Jackson
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People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
Olivier Theyskens -
Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine - A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
Ralph Ellison -
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
A. J. P. Taylor -
We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
Warren Farrell -
This woman is sick to her marrow-bone, this woman is utterly alone, with husband dead, with son away in jail. Pray for me. Pray.
Anna Akhmatova
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The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
Fred W. Friendly -
You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
S. E. Hinton -
I like my customer to be fierce.
Christian Louboutin -
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.
John Lasseter -
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
Bryce Dessner The National