Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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• My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Money
  • Day
  • Cooking

• India should be an exporter of technology.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Technology
  • Should
  • India

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • Risk
  • Meaning

• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Care
  • Body

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Filmmaking

• I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Different
  • Home
  • Beautiful

• I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Laugh

• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Organization

• What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • People
  • Heart
  • Song

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Successful

• The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Past
  • Perception

• OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Earth
  • Meet
  • God's Judgment Seat

• I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kind
  • Behinds
  • Memorable

• With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Character
  • Words
  • Eyes

• Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.

  

  Bill Kirchen
  • Play
  • Hear

• I absolutely did date Victoria Beckham, yes.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Victoria Beckham

• I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

  

  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Play
  • Jail
  • Finesse