David Rodigan Quotes

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

David Rodigan

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• 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

• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• 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

• Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Power
  • American

• 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

• I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Life
  • Serious

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Writing
  • School
  • College

• We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • God
  • Friends

• Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Like
  • Memory

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

  

  David Rodigan
  • People
  • Love
  • High