Billy Joel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
-
When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
-
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
-
If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
-
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
-
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
-
There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
-
After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
-
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
-
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
-
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
-
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
-
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
-
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
-
My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
-
I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'
-
Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
-
The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
-
Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.
-
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
-
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
-
Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
