Adam Clayton Quotes

It was like - throw out technology. Give us a microphone and a bit of tape and you do the bit in between.

Adam Clayton U2

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Better
  • Worst
  • Hello

• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Day
  • Protection

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Change
  • Direction

• It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Black
  • Painting

• Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Story
  • Name

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Said

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Imagination

• My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

  

  Patrick White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Marriage

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• I would put myself towards left of center.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Myself
  • Left
  • Center

• But I've consistently worked for 10 years.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Years
  • Worked
  • Consistently

• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Practice
  • Two
  • Maybe

• I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

  

  Keyshawn Johnson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

  

  Laura Marling
  • World
  • Character
  • Culture

• Millennials are a very interesting generation for a lot of reasons. They're absolutely adorable, but they have some significant challenges. Their lives and their careers are delayed by about 10 years, partly because of the recession, also because of technology and also because of the way that they approach things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Interesting
  • Technology
  • Challenges

• If new orthodoxies of unbelief attack inherited faith, if scientism and a cult of technology lower our eyes to the gadgets in our hands, the effect ripples across a culture’s soul.

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • Technology
  • Unbelief
  • Gadgets

• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Humility
  • Envy

• It was like - throw out technology. Give us a microphone and a bit of tape and you do the bit in between.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Technology
  • Tape
  • Microphone