Billy Joel Quotes

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Writing
  • Grandma
  • Visiting

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• I don't have business with any politicians.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Politicians
  • Any

• The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Save

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • God
  • Mind
  • American

• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say the King Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Eye

• You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Body

• Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Service
  • Luck

• There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.

  

  Dave Alvin
  • Music
  • Quiet
  • Folks

• I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Women