Johnny Colt Quotes

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

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• The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Day
  • Childhood

• I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Fame

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Running
  • Water
  • Electricity

• L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Home
  • Me
  • Feel

• I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Good
  • Performance

• Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Years

• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Simple
  • Possible
  • Complexity

• I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Students
  • Principles

• I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

  

  Jeff Mangum
  • Band
  • Football

• Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Law
  • Military
  • Order

• It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Real
  • Health

• When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Band
  • Scary