Sean Lennon Quotes

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

Sean Lennon

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• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Ideas
  • End
  • Wealth

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Thanks

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Police

• I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Up
  • Universe

• Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Book
  • Powerful

• I think I'd like my hair to be perfect.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Perfect
  • Hair

• I remember my very first training session. It was raining hard. It was cold, and I went home. I couldn't train. I stayed for ten minutes then told my dad to take me home.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Dad

• Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Great
  • Music
  • Song

• Look at every show on television; it's derivative of another show that came before it. It was only a matter of time. So all you 'Mentalist' fans, it's okay to like the show, but don't be in denial of where it came from. Friday nights, U.S.A., basic cable-style baby.

  

  James Roday
  • Time
  • Style
  • Baby

• I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • People

• My dad had a company, and there were various films that hadn't gone into production that I'm trying to nurture.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Trying
  • Dad

• I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Time
  • Long
  • Amazing

• Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Men
  • American
  • Together

• I've always felt very English.

  

  David Hockney
  • English

• If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

  

  Paul Washer
  • God
  • Lost

• The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Greatest
  • Queen

• I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Important
  • Growing

• I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Time
  • Money
  • Pinched

• I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

  

  Sean Lennon