Layne Staley Quotes

Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29 - April 1995: 'Layne Staley Unchained'

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• Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all you'll do is fall down and worship it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Power
  • Think
  • Fall

• Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Words

• No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Experience
  • Year
  • Sales

• The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons require that it be treated as a top priority. Disarmament will work better than any alternative in reducing the risk of use.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Better

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Experience
  • War
  • Period

• The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Live
  • Control
  • Marriage

• 'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Life

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • American
  • Hand

• Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Life
  • Children

• My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Truth

• ..paint was always in history of painting a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • History
  • Religious
  • Painting

• I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.

  

  David Harewood
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Universe

• I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Trying
  • Career

• I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Latin

• It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

  

  James D'arcy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Proud

• People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• I told them, you can succeed - it's not likely the first time, maybe 25 per cent, but you CAN succeed. You can also die. By April 16 they had already been to camp III, well ahead of most teams.

  

  Anatoli Boukreev
  • Time
  • Die
  • April

• There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own soft rays... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Enough
  • Spring
  • Flower

• Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time
  • Great
  • History

• Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29 - April 1995: 'Layne Staley Unchained'

  

  Layne Staley
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