Jonathan Richman Quotes

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

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• Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Sick
  • Name

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• You're not sick you're just in love.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Love
  • Sick
  • For Her

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
  • Mother

• I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Good
  • Help
  • Crazy

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• A hospital is no place to be sick.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Sick
  • Place
  • Medical

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Sick
  • Retirement

• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • America
  • House

• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Truth
  • Language
  • Everyone

• I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • House
  • Nice
  • Sick

• We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Best
  • Religion

• The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Sick
  • Achievement
  • Funeral

• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Time
  • Family
  • Happy

• If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.

  

  James Altucher
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Die

• I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Giving
  • Feminist
  • Lesbian

• I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don't like to waste time, and I don't like to go to the judges. I feel like I've fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Time
  • Long
  • High

• From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • Light

• Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else. Even when there is no one.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Writing

• I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

  

  Jonathan Richman
  • Sick