William Drummond (Hawthornden) Quotes

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

William Drummond

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• I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

  

  Earl Hines
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Memory

• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Long
  • Success
  • Leadership

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Women
  • Admit

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Long
  • Economy
  • Admire

• Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

  

  Young Thug
  • Long
  • Why
  • Think

• You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done

• I am and will always be a Laker for life.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Laker

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Food
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.

  

  Aaron Gillespie
  • Perfect
  • Jesus
  • Willing

• I want to stand out. After my career is over, I want people to say, 'He was different.' It's not to be outrageous. I just want people to know that when I played ball, I was having fun.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • Ignorance
  • Opinions

• So that my life be brave, what though not long?

  

  William Drummond
  • Life
  • Long
  • Brave