Buddy Wakefield Quotes

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

Buddy Wakefield

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• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• I want to take a more international direction with my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Career
  • Direction

• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • May
  • Business
  • Lost

• I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Up

• I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Space

• I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Help

• The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Life
  • Future

• I always got along with Borg, who was my greatest rival. People like to see me and Connors, me and Lendl, go at it. We didn't like each other.

  

  John McEnroe
  • People

• I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

  

  David Warner
  • Happy

• No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. 'In all our afflictions, He is afflicted.' He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

  

  John Flavel
  • Friend
  • Jesus

• I had people coming up and telling me they hadn't voted in twenty-five years, but they were turning out for me on Tuesday. I still see the face of this kid who approached me in the little town of Willmar. 'Jesse,' he said, 'you are us.'

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People
  • Up
  • Tuesday

• If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Life
  • Good
  • Model

• 'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • May
  • She
  • Happy

• I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Up

• At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Eyes

• Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Alone
  • Problems
  • Resolved

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Eyes
  • Daily
  • Sky

• Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.

  

  Kelsang Gyatso
  • Mind
  • Sky
  • Clouds

• William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Family
  • Sky

• I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Me
  • Missing
  • Musician

• Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Done
  • Art

• The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Sky
  • Town
  • Throat