Melissa Etheridge Quotes

What's happening right now, this month, I check in and go, 'Hey. You are at the top of a wave right now. Look around and enjoy it because it's not going to stay,' ... The wave goes away. It does not dictate how good I am or my worth. It's just the way it happens.

Melissa Etheridge

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• I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Thought
  • Humor
  • Tough

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Think
  • Personality

• I like Public Enemy a great deal.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Great
  • Like
  • Enemy

• There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Idea
  • Create
  • Kid

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Evidence
  • Absence

• We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Man
  • Enjoy
  • Disdain

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Face

• The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Judge

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Real
  • High
  • Technology

• The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Live
  • Me

• Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

  

  Edgar Magnin
  • Horizon
  • Stretch

• When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Dream
  • Way
  • Made

• Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic. What fans are interested in is 'throwawayability': which teams toss away hard-earned leads? Now we know that 'throwawayability' exists because we proved last season that 'bouncebackability' exists (although, hilariously, Palace don't have it) and 'throw-awayability' is the flip side of it.

  

  Daniel Finkelstein
  • Team
  • Ability
  • Soccer

• What's happening right now, this month, I check in and go, 'Hey. You are at the top of a wave right now. Look around and enjoy it because it's not going to stay,' ... The wave goes away. It does not dictate how good I am or my worth. It's just the way it happens.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Way
  • Enjoy
  • Wave