Eugene Field Quotes

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Good
  • God
  • Trying

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Involved
  • Activities

• We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Fight

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Training

• The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Always
  • Role

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'

  

  Patch Adams
  • Depression

• What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Moments
  • Transformation

• It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • World
  • Financial

• Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Time
  • Music
  • Culture

• I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

  

  Joe Davis
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • August

• I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I do my art, you know.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Fellows