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
  • Nowadays

• 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

• Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Anyone

• I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • True
  • Community

• I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Beginning

• If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Advice

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

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains