John Lee Hooker Quotes

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

John Lee Hooker

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• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Mom
  • Holy
  • Nights

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Writing
  • Psychology
  • Teen

• I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Seriously

• Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Problems
  • Economy
  • Employees

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Father
  • Day
  • Mom

• Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Done
  • Said
  • Follow

• I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Live
  • Playing
  • Consequences

• Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Energy
  • Know

• When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • World
  • Different
  • Real

• I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Like

• I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Fishing

• Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Hope

• I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Work
  • Important
  • Business

• I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

  

  Piers Anthony

• The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Strong
  • Fake

• So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pain
  • Inherent
  • Human Suffering

• Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

  

  John Lee Hooker