John Fahey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
-
My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
-
For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
-
I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
-
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
-
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
-
There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
-
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
-
I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
-
Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
-
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
-
The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
-
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
-
I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
-
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
-
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
-
Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.
-
Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
-
We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy.
-
It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
-
I just want to be treated like an average guy.
