Ezra Furman Quotes

I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.

Ezra Furman

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• I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Team
  • Passionate
  • England

• If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Family
  • Force
  • Really

• The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Force

• I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Passionate

• Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Beautiful
  • Party
  • Thought

• I used to have a really big crush on Hayden Christensen.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Really
  • Crush
  • Big

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Stupid
  • Force

• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Important
  • Love
  • Universe

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Swimming
  • Passionate

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Enemy

• I was in an Uber in Vegas with some friends, and 'Don't Let Me Down' came on. My driver didn't recognize me but started to talk about how much he loved Daya and how he had a crush on her.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Friends
  • Crush
  • Vegas

• Market forces will one day crush the Federal Reserve. One day, the market forces will reverse.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Crush

• Even if I didn't know Eric, I still think he would be my celebrity crush. He's so freakin' gorgeous.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Celebrity
  • Crush

• The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now.

  

  David Shields
  • Crush

• It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  

  William Styron
  • Soul
  • Pain
  • Depression

• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  

  Wil McCarthy
  • Strong
  • Thing
  • Found

• But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Work
  • Children
  • Force

• If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Done
  • Running
  • Danger

• I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Force
  • Passionate
  • Crush