Bryce Dessner Quotes

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

Bryce Dessner The National

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Know
  • Week
  • Days

• Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thoughts
  • Thought
  • Infection

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hair
  • Cure
  • Gray

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Never
  • Mayor

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Child

• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Small
  • Health

• Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Up
  • Wind

• I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Long
  • Done
  • Wind

• Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Great
  • Men

• I watch you sleep in the still of the night / You look so pretty when you dream / So many people just go through life / Holding back, they don't say what they mean / But it's easy for me / Since you came

  

  Kim Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breathtaking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • World

• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

  

  Claudia Black
  • People
  • Great
  • Period

• We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.

  

  Elizabeth Bennett
  • Friends
  • Fortune
  • Suffer

• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Inside
  • Sides
  • Ridiculous

• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Passion
  • Language
  • Enjoy

• I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National