Elvin Bishop Quotes

Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

Elvin Bishop

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• I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Future

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Important
  • High
  • Water

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Trust
  • Just

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Poetry
  • Jazz
  • Slave

• The circus leaves a sweet memory.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Sweet
  • Memory
  • Circus

• Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • You
  • Rules

• We are what we believe we are.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Brainy

• I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • First
  • Four
  • My Own

• The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Community
  • Lost

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Gowns

• My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Violence

• I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thought

• Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Travel
  • Happiness
  • Building

• I believe in people, especially suffering people.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Suffering

• Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Good

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

  

  Elvin Bishop
  • Play
  • Football
  • Grow