Luther Allison Quotes

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• I dress for men.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Men
  • Dress

• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Today
  • Beautiful

• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Family
  • New
  • Broadway

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Impossible
  • Conversation

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Time
  • Think
  • Acting

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Country
  • Living
  • Italy

• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Succeed
  • Many
  • Depend

• Everyone can write their melodies and chords and pianos and guitars, but what hasn't been discovered yet are tones and textures, and that's very exciting. Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • Sound

• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Victory
  • First
  • Conquer

• I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Period

• Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Forget
  • Forgive

• Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Heart

• Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • She

• You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

  

  Sean Parker
  • People
  • Want
  • Products

• You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Identity

• There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

  

  John Paulson
  • Stock

• All the people that come out and show their support and their pride for your accomplishments, I think it really reminds you that without people you don't ever to get to live that dream. To play in the NHL is one thing, but to win the Stanley Cup and come back and share it with everyone is another thing.

  

  Jonathan Toews
  • People
  • Live
  • Dream

• The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

  

  Alan Sokal
  • Society
  • Conflicts
  • Relativists

• We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

  

  Luther Allison