Ray LaMontagne Quotes

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

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• I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Remember
  • Best

• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Goal
  • Ask

• To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Work
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Moon

• If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • India
  • Useless
  • Incompetent

• I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Dream

• I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Police
  • Random
  • Privacy

• At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Energy
  • Effort
  • Things

• The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Universe

• One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • World
  • Pretty

• Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Music
  • Piano

• There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Things
  • Body
  • Very

• It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Action
  • Useless

• The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Life
  • Real
  • Powerful

• To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

  

  William Gibson
  • World
  • Writing
  • Real

• Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Magic

• My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Voice
  • Tone