Harry Chapin Quotes

If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

Harry Chapin

• American perception
• Hunger Movement

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Kind
  • Attitude
  • Enthusiasm

• I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Technology
  • Growth
  • inspirational

• I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Die

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Inspiration
  • Anxiety

• I will declare when I am in the gravel, From the maintenance of gifts, From being numbered, from going to be a martyr In the reckoning of Saint Segerno. From a word when sin may be to me, Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.

  

  Taliesin
  • May

• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate:And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Smile

• My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Heart
  • True
  • Success

• More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I learned nothing while I was in school.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • School

• I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Alcohol

• The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Intuition

• The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Past
  • Period

• It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

  

  Max Martin
  • Time
  • Important
  • Remember

• I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

  

  Mary Badham
  • Pretty

• The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

  

  Laurent Brancowitz Phoenix
  • Music
  • Air

• I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• If you think about rap and how it has become so much easier to record music and release it, and you think about everyone in the world being a 'rapper' these days, it's so much easier. But it's still as hard as ever to break through and truly be successful in this industry.

  

  G-Eazy
  • World
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

  

  John Dryden
  • Money
  • May
  • Soul

• What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

  

  G-Dragon
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Failure

• He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Sun
  • Grinned

• The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Names
  • Places

• If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • American perception
  • Hunger Movement