Billy Joel Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
-
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
-
The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
-
I love to write.
-
Nothing exists except through language.
-
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
-
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
-
I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
-
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
-
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
-
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
-
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
-
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
-
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
-
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
-
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
-
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
-
Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.
-
Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.
-
No nation has been able to establish itself, as a nation in Palestine up to this day, no national union and no national spirit have prevailed there. The motley, impoverished tribes which have occupied it have held it as mere tenants at will, temporary landowners, evidently waiting for those entitled to the permanent possession of the soil.
-
Clear as a crystal... Sharp as a knife...I feel like I'm in the prime of my life.
