Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Great
  • Things
  • Friendship

• Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Service

• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Mind
  • True

• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• I wonder wonder why the wonder falls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonder falls With everything I touch and hear and see

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Why
  • Wonder

• Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Important
  • Independent
  • Judge

• We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Bored

• If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

  

  Frank Lane
  • Storm
  • Sunshine

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Game

• Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Strong

• Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Good

• I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Prince

• Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She leaned way back just to straighten up her hose Well the ice cream melted and the coffee froze.

  

  Vincent Eugene Craddock
  • Coffee
  • Hot
  • Fountain

• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Cry

• It's important to understand the work that's being done, and to make sure it's actually helping. And sometimes, by working on it myself, I get a better grasp of the challenges and complexities of the task, and I'm able to talk about it better. That's why a balance of actual work and awareness is good, because they feed each other.

  

  Régine Alexandra Chassagne Arcade Fire
  • Important
  • Done
  • Balance

• We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.

  

  Mohammad bin Salman
  • Believe
  • Rights
  • Obtain

• He got himself involved. It wasn't so much anything we did specifically ? we did really the same things we've been doing. He found ways to get his hands on the ball.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Hands
  • Ball
  • Specifically

• The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Meditation
  • Praying
  • Asks