Steve Cropper Quotes

If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

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• If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Knows
  • Ifs
  • Lasts

• Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Evil

• Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Ignorance
  • Planet
  • Damage

• Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Maturity
  • Shelter
  • VIstas

• Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Money
  • Universal
  • Money`s

• Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• The only thing I ever really care about is animals - animal causes. I don't really care about people that much, but animals I feel like they always need to be protected.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Home

• You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Playing
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• Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.

  

  Byung Hun
  • Height
  • Plastic
  • Enhancement

• Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?

  

  Hafez
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Nice

• the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Success
  • Travel
  • Holiday

• Maybe he overreacted a bit." - "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland".

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Littles
  • Walks
  • Bits

• The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Littles
  • Grief
  • Wells

• When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Time
  • Live
  • Art

• All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Actions
  • Shakespeare

• If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

  

  Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s
  • Littles
  • Jars