Billy Joel Quotes

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

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• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • American
  • Food
  • Blind

• One child is never enough for a monarch.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Child
  • Enough

• In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Detail

• Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Good
  • Character
  • Interesting

• We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Like
  • Child
  • Worst

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • American
  • Man
  • Serious

• What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Running
  • Question

• I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Nice
  • Practice
  • Golf

• Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Time
  • Period

• Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • Bad

• Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

  

  Bo Belinsky
  • Philadelphia
  • Easter Egg
  • Liberty Bell

• Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • American
  • Pretty