Patti Smith Quotes
I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.
Patti Smith
Quotes to Explore
It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
Park Chan-wook
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei
Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
Jack Keane
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
Nadia Giosia
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
Gary Johnson
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Barbra Streisand
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. Pei
To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
Gary Jennings