Georgie Fame Quotes

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

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• I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Cool

• Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Success
  • Growth
  • Years

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Today
  • Progress
  • Computers

• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Happiness
  • Without
  • Admire

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Religion
  • View
  • Terrorism

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Heart
  • Grass

• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Political
  • Me
  • Doing

• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Growing

• HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Feeling
  • Hero
  • Personal

• Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Music
  • Family
  • Night

• It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Better
  • Wait
  • Finish

• Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Men
  • Sight
  • Guns

• The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • House
  • Wall
  • Tree

• The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Civilization
  • Weapon
  • Demonstrate

• There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Meaningful
  • Lovely

• I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Find
  • Solace
  • Mount

• If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

  

  Georgie Fame
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