Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listen

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I'm a real girly-girl.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Girly

• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Half
  • Attended

• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • War
  • Ambition
  • Monster

• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Need

• I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Light

• I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Family
  • Child

• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Discover
  • Surprised
  • Boston

• My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Mother
  • Everyday
  • Achievements

• When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Pretty
  • Travel
  • Beauty

• As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • House
  • Control
  • White House

• Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • Love
  • Regardless

• To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Eyes

• We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Power
  • Guilty

• Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Different
  • May
  • Book

• We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Duty
  • Weakness
  • Affection

• The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Happiness
  • Knowable

• I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Son
  • Daughter

• I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Thought
  • Heard
  • Grew

• My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Important
  • Family
  • Musician

• I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Fans
  • Musician
  • Heard