Buddy Wakefield Quotes

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

Buddy Wakefield

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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Depression
  • Medication

• It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Book
  • House
  • Beautiful

• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Life
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

  

  Young Thug
  • Focus
  • Feel
  • Phone

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Happy
  • Today

• I want to see more sports in schools.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Want
  • Sports
  • See

• Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Different
  • Important
  • Writing

• To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

  

  Weegee
  • Life
  • Real
  • Photograph

• A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty is more important than this country having a future in NATO and peace for its citizens.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Poet
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Black
  • Religious

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Great
  • Help

• I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Human
  • Trouble
  • Characters

• Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Marriage

• He puts that pressure on us all the time.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Pressure

• We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • House
  • Act

• I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Time
  • Customs

• Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

  

  William Harvey
  • Memories
  • Endurance

• If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Presence
  • Poem
  • Mediocrity