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
  • Opponent

• 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

• The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Important
  • Writing

• From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Father

• Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Time
  • Suffering

• The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.

  

  Anthony Greenwald
  • Past
  • Player
  • Drama

• Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

  

  Alexandra David-Neel
  • Doubt
  • Heard
  • Pray

• 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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