Andra Day Quotes

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

Andra Day

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Goals
  • Special

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Poor
  • Poet
  • Only

• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Peoples

• If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Cool

• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Father
  • Want

• At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
  • Night
  • Light

• I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Design
  • Movies
  • Costumes

• Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Present
  • Literature
  • Poet

• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Art

• Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say ' let nature take its course '.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.

  

  Calvin Coolidge

• When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Family
  • Door

• Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Responsibility
  • Streets
  • Take Care

• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Good
  • Think
  • Human

• God, I'm glad I'm not me.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • God

• At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

  

  Moliere
  • Dead
  • Be Married

• I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

  

  Andra Day