Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

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• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Realize

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Way
  • Dinner
  • Town

• The roughest road often leads to the top.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Road
  • Top

• The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

  

  Jean Gabin
  • Deep
  • Theater
  • Too Deep

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Happy
  • Budweiser
  • Brewery

• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  

  Clara Barton
  • War
  • Troops
  • Prisons

• You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

  

  Drew Houston
  • Work
  • Business
  • Period

• Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men

• It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Friendship
  • Wrong

• Every man is a poet when he is in love.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Man
  • For Him

• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • Secret

• Things are simple when you're going to die.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Death
  • Simple
  • Dying

• Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

  

  Confucius
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Preparation

• There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Darkness
  • Awakened
  • Slumbering

• Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

  

  Emma Stone
  • People
  • Balance

• For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.

  

  Emily Rodda
  • Imagine
  • Impossible
  • Might

• I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Imagine
  • Screwed