Pete Yorn Quotes

Stay around for me. Out do everyone. Sometimes I catch them. Stay around for me.

Pete Yorn

• Everyone
• Around
• Catch

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Own

• I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Escapist

• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • School
  • Friends
  • Song

• From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Children
  • Together
  • Food

• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Choice
  • Options

• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Better

• Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Result
  • Most
  • Effect

• My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Father
  • Political
  • Influence

• God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Love
  • Nature

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Hope
  • Going
  • Greece

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Look
  • Successful

• I have done Botox, and I loved it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Done
  • Loved
  • Botox

• When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Breakfast

• America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • America
  • How

• As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Food
  • Child
  • Fly

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Trying
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• The great scientists have been occupied with values—it is only their vulgar followers who think they are not. If scientists like Descartes, Newton, Einstein, Darwin, and Freud don’t “look deeply into experience,” what do they do? They have imaginations as powerful as any poet’s and some of them were first-rate writers as well. How do you draw the line between Walden and The Voyage of the Beagle? The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations—like that of the artistic imagination.

  

  Edmund Beecher Wilson
  • Experience
  • Values
  • Scientists

• Stay around for me. Out do everyone. Sometimes I catch them. Stay around for me.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Everyone
  • Around
  • Catch