Aaron Neville Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
-
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
-
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
-
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
-
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
-
Running back was always my favorite position.
-
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
-
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
-
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
-
I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
-
I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
-
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
-
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
-
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
-
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
-
I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
-
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
-
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
-
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
-
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
-
To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.
-
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
-
I would like to live to 120, because conceptually, people can survive to 120. Every 20 years, it changes. So maybe, in the next 20 years people can go to space. I don’t know what the next revolution will be. I want to watch.
-
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
