Layne Thomas Staley Quotes

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains

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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Pardon
  • Glowing
  • Adjust

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Player

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • End

• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Now

• Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Know
  • End
  • Presidential

• It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Long
  • Career
  • Day

• When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Live
  • Experience

• Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Free
  • Value

• The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Up

• Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Live
  • Home
  • Band

• Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

  

  Mary Douglas
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Alone

• Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Life
  • World
  • Lost

• Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

  

  Jay Roach

• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Passion
  • Mouths

• Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Drug
  • Effects
  • Huge