Layne Thomas Staley Quotes

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains

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• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • First
  • Endeavor

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guantanamo
  • Be Closed

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Disciples

• I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • School
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Business

• Chanel is a very important vendor for Neiman Marcus. My favorite thing is the way they finish off the hems on dresses and jackets.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Important

• There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.

  

  Duncan Jones

• The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Life
  • City

• That is one of the things I dream about for myself: to receive the 'golden ball' someday.

  

  Neymar
  • Dream

• I don't snowboard to win everything. I do it because I love it. I do it because I have fun, and everyone else can think whatever they want. For me, it's all about fun, and I enjoy it so much.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Fun

• People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.

  

  Dave Morris
  • People
  • Design

• I started going gray in my early twenties.

  

  Matt LeBlanc

• There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Blue

• 'Morning Star' is the light that many sailors would use to guide them. But it's also referenced twice in the Bible - once for Lucifer and once for Jesus.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Night
  • Words
  • Genius

• Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plant?Anyone knows an ant, can’tMove a rubber tree plant.But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopesHe’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • High
  • Tree
  • Sky

• My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role. As any motorcycle enthusiast can probably attest to, getting your motorcycle looking and riding the best certainly holds a high rating of importance. And if I don't finish the Lego city with my son, then I meet the wrath of an extremely assertive four-year-old project manager.

  

  Danielle Cormack
  • Passion
  • Importance
  • Projects

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • People
  • Couple
  • Path

• At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains