Aaron Neville Quotes

When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

Aaron Neville

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• What I do for a living is listen.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Living
  • Listen

• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• Your man Flavor Flav is living!

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Man
  • Living
  • Flavor

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
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  • Horse

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Taken

• The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Serious

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Sea
  • Horse
  • Inside

• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Women
  • You
  • Living

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Like
  • Living
  • Royal

• I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Long
  • Bike
  • Ride

• I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

  

  Larry David
  • Great
  • Money
  • Living

• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Author
  • Living

• Freedom is living without chains.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Freedom
  • Living
  • Chains

• I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Living
  • Worst

• A man may well bring a horse to the water,But he cannot make him drinke without he will.

  

  John Heywood
  • May
  • Water
  • Horse

• Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Living
  • Complicated
  • Secrets

• Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

  

  William Floyd
  • Fear
  • Island
  • Submit

• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Sleep
  • Heaven
  • Study

• When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Horse
  • Living
  • Ride