Patty Smyth Quotes

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Patty Smyth

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• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Rights
  • TV
  • Formula One

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• I never looked good in a bikini. My legs were too thin.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Never
  • Legs

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working

• I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • America
  • Movie

• Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feel

• Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Mother
  • France

• Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Way
  • Always
  • Thoughtful

• I would love to work with Shilpa again. But it would have to be for 'Dill Mill Gayye (DMG)' - that's the only fiction show I'll take up on small screen. I'm extremely faithful to that show. That apart, I'm not likely to do anymore fiction on TV for the time being.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • Relationship
  • Inspiration

• It takes two to get one in trouble.

  

  Mae West
  • Trouble
  • Two
  • Get

• The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts - so many millions of miles further off are we!

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Light

• Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz

• Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Thoughts

• The black earth drinks, in turnThe trees drink up the earth.The sea the torrents drinks, the sun the sea,And the moon drinks the sun.Why, comrades, do ye flout me,If I, too, wish to drink?

  

  Anacreon
  • Up
  • Why
  • Black

• I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Way
  • Imperfect
  • Found Out

• In the American South, where I live, Christianity is very much about the Bible. Most Christians come from churches that preach the Bible, teach the Bible, adhere (they claim) to the Bible. It is almost “common sense” among many Christians in this part of the world that if you don’t believe in the Bible you cannot be a Christian. Most Christians in other parts of the world—in fact, the vast majority of Christians throughout the history of the church—would find that common sense to be nonsense.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Church
  • Bible
  • Teach

• To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Equal
  • Worth
  • Twice

• Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Comedian

• The initial response the Buddha intends to arouse in us is an ethical one. By calling our attention to our bondage to old age and death, he seeks to inspire in us a firm resolution to turn away from unwholesome ways of living and to embrace instead wholesome alternatives.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Death
  • Attention
  • Response

• There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

  

  Patty Smyth