Miles Davis Quotes

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Miles Davis

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Done
  • Environment
  • Most

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Wave

• I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • School
  • Friends
  • Cool

• I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Idea

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • School
  • Know
  • Fight

• I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learning

• We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  

  Gemma Galgani
  • Jesus
  • Ignorance
  • Virtue

• I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

  

  Arthur Bradford
  • Change
  • Stories
  • Computer

• My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Fear

• It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

  

  Miles Davis
  • Change
  • Creating
  • Becoming