David Rodigan Quotes

Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

David Rodigan

• People
• Love
• High
• Treasure
• Delight

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Think
  • Father
  • Son

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Parents
  • Attention
  • Child

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Fact

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Strategy
  • Link

• I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Bible

• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Life
  • Best
  • Waiting

• I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.

  

  Lucretius

• How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),

  

  Andrew Marvell

• Jerry Cantrell talking about Chris Cornell at the press room of the Rock and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. YouTube (April 14, 2018).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Rock
  • April

• Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • World
  • Boy
  • Memories

• China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Friends

• One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Children
  • Imagine
  • Sorrow

• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • People
  • Art
  • Words

• Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Boy
  • Rose
  • Back

• There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Time
  • Family
  • Lost

• Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

  

  David Rodigan
  • People
  • Love
  • High