Alex Chilton Quotes
I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.Alex Chilton Big Star
Quotes to Explore
-
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup -
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
Ornette Coleman -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
Ian Mckellen -
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
Zachary Taylor
-
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
Ian McDiarmid -
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
Zach Galifianakis -
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
Ilan Stavans -
People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
Dane Cook -
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
Fisher Stevens -
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
Kate Christensen
-
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
S. Jay Olshansky -
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
J. G. Ballard -
The market for local advertising is in the billions.
Sam Altman -
Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
Octavia Spencer -
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead
-
We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
Pete Hamill -
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
E. W. Howe -
I ain't here to tell nobody what's right or what's wrong.
Fat Joe -
There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.
Tom Hanks -
My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
Katharine McPhee -
I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
Alex Chilton Big Star