Pete Yorn Quotes

Convince yourself that everything is alright. 'Cos it already is.

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• All our wives are experimental psychologists.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Our
  • Wives
  • Experimental

• I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Better
  • Write

• I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Work
  • America
  • Really

• I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Perfect
  • Justice
  • Punishment

• I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Great
  • Movie

• The soul needs more space than the body.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Soul
  • Space
  • Body

• If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Morality

• Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

  

  Plutarch
  • Change
  • Spirit
  • Ambition

• If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts against their father, fool me not so much to bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, and let not women's weapons, water drops, stain my man's cheeks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Women
  • Hearts
  • Weapons

• I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Way
  • Idea
  • Solution

• A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Die
  • Star

• You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

  

  George Washington
  • Way
  • Convince

• I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

  

  Wilbur Wright
  • Future
  • Success
  • Possible

• I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Powerful
  • Sometimes

• Rome was not built in a day. As you continue to struggle to make ends meet, somewhere, somehow, you will make it.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • Day
  • Built
  • Continue

• Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

  

  Susanne Bier
  • Creative
  • Excitement
  • Familiar

• Convince yourself that everything is alright. 'Cos it already is.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Convince
  • Alright
  • Already