Little Richard Quotes

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

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• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Light
  • Show
  • Darkness

• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Know
  • Few

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Guy

• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Watch
  • Finance
  • Hawk

• For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Lost

• My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

  

  Lisa Papademetriou
  • World
  • Great
  • She

• If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Want
  • Evil

• I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

  

  Little Richard
  • People
  • Family
  • Heaven