Elvin Bishop Quotes

I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King.

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Cynicism

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Success

• Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Great
  • Great Things

• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• To be honest, for me, my main workout is when I'm on stage. Even though I make pop music, I don't think I perform in the classic 'pop star' sort of way. I'm very active on stage; I always end up dripping in sweat afterwards. It's always like a full-on, wild performance, so that's pretty much like my exercise, I would say.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Music
  • Pretty

• Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Done

• I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• 'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.

  

  Ben Browder
  • Science

• Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

  

  James Bay
  • Feeling
  • Small

• The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.

  

  Billy Collins
  • World
  • Moving

• I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

  

  Kamahl
  • Life
  • Purpose

• I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

  

  Adrianne Palicki
  • Fun
  • Nature
  • Guy

• "I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Different
  • Guy

• Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'

  

  Neal McDonough
  • Together
  • Band

• Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

  

  Bonny Hicks
  • Time
  • Heaven
  • Side

• I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King.

  

  Elvin Bishop
  • Guy
  • Played