Marc Cohn Quotes

Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

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• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Scary
  • Because
  • Rehearsing

• You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Future
  • Past
  • Young

• The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Important
  • Play
  • Actor

• All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

  

  Lisa See
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Gratitude

• Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Party
  • Study
  • Library

• Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of steam. This one had momentum, I never got bored or discouraged. It is made up of short pieces, which is where my comfort zone is. I'm more of a sprinter than a long-distance runner. When you do a short piece, you get in and get out; you don't linger.

  

  Gabrielle Bell
  • Book
  • Couple
  • Bored

• Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

  

  William Weld
  • Business
  • Individual
  • Natural

• If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it's possible, in everything.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Lifetime
  • Seeker

• God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

  

  William Barclay
  • Situation
  • Glory
  • Stronger

• It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

  

  William Barclay
  • Book
  • Simple

• Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Life
  • Die
  • Universe

• Despair and die. The ghosts

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Despair
  • Dies
  • Ghost

• I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fail
  • Remain
  • Gates

• Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Values
  • Remains
  • Ghost

• The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

  

  Nick Tosches
  • Live
  • Ghost
  • Older

• Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

  

  Marc Cohn
  • Ghost
  • Gates