Jack White Quotes
It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.
Quotes to Explore
-
My daughter is my passion and my life.
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
I don't believe in miracles.
-
Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
-
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
-
We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
-
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
-
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
-
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
-
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
-
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
-
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
-
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
-
We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
-
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
-
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
-
Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.
-
To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
-
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.
-
American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up in a bubble of privilege lulled into thinking this country is a true meritocracy.
-
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
-
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
-
It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.
