Taliesin Quotes
Do not thy passions counteract What thy lips utter? Thy going in thy course into valleys, Dark without lights. And mine were his words. And mine were his languages.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
-
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
-
What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
-
Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
-
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
-
I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
-
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
-
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
-
If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
-
If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
-
When you're young, you're stupid.
-
If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
-
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
-
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
-
Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
-
I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.
-
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
-
Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
-
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.
-
Do not thy passions counteract What thy lips utter? Thy going in thy course into valleys, Dark without lights. And mine were his words. And mine were his languages.
