Bill Crawford Quotes
Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
Quotes to Explore
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
-
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
-
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
-
I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
-
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
-
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
-
I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
-
As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
-
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
-
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
-
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
-
There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
-
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
-
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
-
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
-
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
-
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
-
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
-
In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
-
What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?
-
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
-
On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
-
Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
