Bob Dylan Quotes

I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.

Bob Dylan

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Grateful

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Art
  • Business
  • Think

• Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Good
  • Alive
  • Tests

• I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Bad
  • Tennis

• It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Change
  • Me

• It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Proud

• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Sword

• The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Happy
  • End

• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Team

• With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

  

  Dan Devine
  • House
  • U.S.
  • Our

• As an expectant mom who is currently self-employed, I'm amazed at just how tied to the workplace maternity benefits are.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Mom
  • Benefits
  • Workplace

• If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Lost
  • Reflection

• Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Learning

• Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

  

  Andrew Sarris

• Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey.

  

  David Farr
  • Taken
  • Journey

• There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Interest

• We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Phenomena
  • Holes
  • Gravitational

• I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.

  

  Bob Dylan