Van Morrison Quotes

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

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• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Relationship
  • Child
  • Poverty

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Day

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• We're trying to always expand Smosh and make Smosh a big thing.

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Big

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Car
  • Summer
  • Heat

• I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Walking

• I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Remember
  • Old
  • Meetings

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?

  

  William Maginn
  • Pie
  • Cathedral

• I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Different
  • Dark

• I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Good
  • Different
  • Literature

• Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • Beauty
  • Performance