John Fahey Quotes

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

John Fahey

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Doing
  • Building

• I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Attention
  • Talent

• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Consciousness

• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Real
  • Money
  • Problem

• You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Choose
  • Public

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Win

• In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • May
  • Lawyer
  • Office

• Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Myself
  • Same
  • Mistakes

• From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Wood

• I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Music
  • Coffee

• I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Game

• Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Stress
  • Rehearsal

• Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Act
  • Bodies

• Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.

  

  Georges Canguilhem
  • Science
  • Reality
  • Ignorance

• How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

  

  John Fahey