Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Family
  • Animal

• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
  • Magic

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Made
  • Athletes
  • Champions

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Today
  • Car

• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Book
  • Mother

• I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • School
  • Girl

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Think
  • Words
  • Feelings

• I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Never
  • Just
  • Watched

• Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety

• I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Always
  • Some People

• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Better

• The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Integrity

• Heroism in a bad cause.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Bad
  • Cause
  • Heroism

• It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Dying

• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Politics
  • Fool

• I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Pleasure
  • Nonfiction
  • Exclusively

• I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Sad
  • Clown

• Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Said
  • Facts

• I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Said
  • Alive

• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Persons
  • Said
  • Synagogue

• I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Said
  • Projects
  • Clean