Syd Barrett Quotes

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Taught
  • Knew
  • Quitting

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Hands
  • Mountain
  • Kitchen

• The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Spirit
  • Audience
  • Enthusiasm

• GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
  • Fearless

• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Love
  • Shop

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • English
  • More
  • Manners

• In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Star
  • President
  • Now

• If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Character
  • Power
  • Law

• The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

  

  Vincent Rodriguez III
  • Knowledge
  • Teacher
  • Gift

• When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Song
  • Meaning