John Prine Quotes

I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Want
  • Black

• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Self

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Always
  • Alignment

• It takes a long time to become young.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Young

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Country
  • Father
  • Poverty

• It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Potential

• I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Me
  • Always
  • Hip Hop

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Patient

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Plan
  • Minute

• Women hear rhythm differently than men.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Men
  • Women

• I'd say our ability to supersize emotions are American-made special effects. In European countries, people mostly stay close to home and whatever rage there is simmers under the surface - it's what made the plays of Shakespeare and Harold Pinter so good.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Time
  • Kid
  • Nobody

• As a new mother, you're so vulnerable and make mistakes all the time. I guess there's more pressure when you're in the public eye, but I'd never stand by and let anyone exploit my daughter.

  

  Jessica Marais
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're at a gig, and there's just something amazing going on, it's not really just hearing: it's more of a total body sense, isn't it? You get transported, and all your senses kind of join up.

  

  Max Richter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Amazing

• I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.

  

  John Prine
  • Time
  • Clubs
  • Concert