Jack White Quotes
It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
Quotes to Explore
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
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A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.
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Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.
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All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.
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What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.
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The investor would not be far wrong if this motto read more simply: 'Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop'.
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.
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To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.
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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
