Carl Lewis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
-
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
-
To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
-
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
-
I had long hair when I was a teenager.
-
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
-
Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
-
I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
-
It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
-
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
-
First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
-
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
-
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
-
I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
-
It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
-
Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
-
Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
-
My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
-
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
-
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
-
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
-
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
