Jackson Browne Quotes

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • World
  • India

• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Power
  • Nature

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Money
  • Government
  • More

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Day
  • Son

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Pressure

• Nicky also improved the setting of the machine, which will help him in the remaining six races.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Help
  • Machine
  • Races

• The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • May
  • Eyes

• ... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.

  

  C. Wagner
  • People
  • World
  • May

• American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison.... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Men
  • American
  • Literature

• My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Trying
  • School
  • Age