Jackson Browne Quotes

I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

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• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Moral
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Music
  • Literature

• I never said half the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Said
  • Half

• My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • City
  • New York

• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Madness
  • Proof

• I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • School
  • Think
  • Working

• I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Write
  • Sing
  • Hum

• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Brainy

• My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Work
  • Humanity
  • Explore

• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Music
  • Freedom

• Have common sense and stick to the point.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Sense
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Football
  • Playing
  • Legacy

• The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Country
  • Home
  • Process

• The youth was a cretin, and didn’t even realize that he was. He could think of no more disastrous combination.

  

  Iain Banks

• Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Work
  • Player
  • Confidence

• But now the seeds are planted and the gates are opened wideThe old ways are forgotten there is no place left to hideAnd the legacy I'm leaving you is not very hard to findYou'll see it all around you at this crossroads of timeIn the sweet soil its a growing at the crossroads of time

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Sweet

• I also heard he got busted for smoking weed and he’s really sorry about it and people make mistakes and he’s never gonna do it again.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Smoking

• I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

  

  Storm Reid
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Speak

• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Ambition
  • Resources
  • Satisfaction

• If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

  

  Jimmy Wales

• A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Partner

• If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Truth
  • Creation
  • Speaker

• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne