Ray Manzarek Quotes

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

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• I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Reading
  • Fashion
  • Thought

• As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Live
  • Day

• Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Decision

• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Beginning
  • Need
  • Happen

• I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Paid
  • Dues
  • Trenches

• One can say Senator Sanders should have more explicit antiracist policy within his racial justice platform, not just more general stuff, and still cast a vote for Senator Sanders and still feel that Senator Sanders is the best option that we have in the race.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Best
  • Justice
  • Option

• My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Beautiful
  • Parents
  • Focus

• I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Shy

• The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Fame
  • Election
  • Review

• I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Smell

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Mysterious
  • Telling

• I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Think

• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • May
  • Day
  • Lies

• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

  

  Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman
  • Words

• The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Art
  • Creatures
  • Knowledge Of God

• In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Important
  • Style
  • Matters

• My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • View

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• You cannot fail unless you quit.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fail
  • Quit
  • Unless

• The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Matters
  • Ice Cream
  • Cone