John Clare Quotes

And don't despise your betters cause they're old.

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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Car
  • Design

• I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Movies

• Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Good
  • Better
  • Down

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • College
  • Very

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Fence

• High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Believe
  • Oppression

• Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Imagination
  • Arts
  • Expand

• You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Know
  • Succeed
  • Losing

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Today

• New York ladies all look immaculate.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Look
  • New
  • New York

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Important
  • Success

• Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

  

  Jerry Spinelli
  • Up
  • Kids

• This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

  

  Augustus Y. Napier

• It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Long

• In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never change.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • End
  • Musketeer
  • D'Artagnan

• And don't despise your betters cause they're old.

  

  John Clare