Alex Riley Quotes

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

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• Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Picture
  • Look
  • Race

• I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

  

  Little Richard
  • Gentleman
  • Much

• The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Work
  • Lives
  • Tragic

• Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Average
  • Fields

• I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Travel

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

• I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Experience
  • College

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  

  William Cowper
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Trying
  • Design
  • Goal

• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Style

• I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • History
  • Fascinated
  • ERA

• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  

  George Washington
  • Justice
  • Mankind
  • Liberal

• Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Existence
  • Boredom
  • Fog

• Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  

  Etheridge Knight
  • Black
  • Poetry
  • Boys

• Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."

  

  Edwin Morris
  • Presence
  • Wrote
  • Familiarity

• A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

  

  Daniel Yankelovich
  • Work
  • Different
  • Character

• I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Person
  • Machines
  • Envision

• Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.

  

  Michael Patrick King
  • Change
  • Comforting
  • Seasons

• I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

  

  Alex Riley
  • Machines
  • Planes