Billy Joel Quotes

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Blood
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Blood
  • Blues

• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Free
  • Critics
  • Buy

• The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Party

• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Blood

• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Cold

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Up
  • Blood
  • More

• The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Dark

• In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Critics
  • Develop
  • American Music

• I have learned very quickly where my strengths are, and color coordination of particular things is not a strong suit.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Strong
  • Color

• The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • People
  • Success

• I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Heart
  • Small
  • City

• Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

  

  Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • Life
  • Education
  • Food

• Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Cold
  • Blood
  • Critics