Jack White Quotes

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • College
  • Football
  • Religion

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Idea
  • How
  • Yes

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Love
  • City
  • Moving

• Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Great
  • Control

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Grandfather
  • Blues
  • Did

• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Loving

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Picture
  • Honest

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
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• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Limit

• The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

  

  Lord Kelvin
  • True

• Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Believe

• When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• 'This', cried the Mayor, 'is your town's darkest hour! The time for all Whos who have blood that is red To come to the aid of their country!', he said. 'We've GOT to make noises in greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!'

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Time
  • Country
  • Red

• It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

  

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