Ryan Adams Quotes

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

Ryan Adams

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• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • Character
  • Desire

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Soul
  • Someone
  • Save

• It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Think
  • Perfect

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Feeling
  • College
  • Brain

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • American
  • Today
  • Dream

• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Doing

• Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Power
  • Personality

• Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your skin and then use this, and it really works. Plus, it's so easy to do, and you don't have to leave the house, so whenever you want to put sandals on, you don't have to worry about going to the salon.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Great
  • House

• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • America
  • Future

• Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.

  

  Tacitus

• Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mistake

• I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

  

  Christopher Walken

• I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Kind
  • Religious
  • Calling

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Censorship
  • Sort
  • Opposed

• To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Kind
  • Struggle
  • Enough