George Sewell Quotes
Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
-
This town was built on nepotism.
-
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
-
The surface is all you get of me.
-
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
-
If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
-
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
-
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
-
When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
-
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
-
Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
-
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
-
There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
-
Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
-
As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
-
I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.
-
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
-
And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
-
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
-
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
-
Like the Cubists before them, the abstractionists felt a beautiful thing in perceiving how the medium can, of its own accord, carry one into the unknown, that is to the discovery of new structures. What an inspiration the medium is..
-
Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?
