Ray LaMontagne Quotes

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

Ray LaMontagne

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• I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Know
  • Hair
  • Drive

• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Life
  • Water
  • Sea

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Art
  • Sad
  • Popular

• I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Clever

• 'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'

  

  Lawyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Sex

• A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Respect
  • Lost
  • Nice

• As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

  

  Patton Oswalt

• Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

  

  Lyall Watson
  • Live
  • Elephant

• I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

  

  Cy Coleman

• Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

  

  Mary Lou Williams
  • Night
  • Society

• I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Pretty
  • Travel

• Testing is overrated.

  

  Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band

• There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

• The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

  

  Edward Kennedy
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Die

• From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

  

  John Pople
  • Important
  • Business
  • Age

• You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I choose to live, not just exist.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Exist

• Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Fiction

• Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • King
  • Forgotten

• I feel calm when I'm on my own.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Feels
  • Calm