Don Henley Quotes

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Don Henley The Eagles

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• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Facts
  • Cnn
  • Israelis

• I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Want
  • Person
  • Icon

• Working makes me happy, makes me calm.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Happy
  • Calm

• Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

  

  Agnes Smedley

• Ah Sin was his name.

  

  Bret Harte

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• Mr Mugabe now has a choice: either he calls of the thugs, allows the media to operate freely, and lets the population of Zimbabwe make a democratic choice, or he and his key ministers will pay the price.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Choice
  • Price
  • Population

• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Earth

• People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People

• I wish I could end every rap song I didn't like with a buzzer.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Song
  • Wish
  • Rap

• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Realizing

• If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Duty
  • Liberties

• Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Enemy
  • Danger
  • Surrender

• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Man

• Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Feelings
  • Lonely
  • Sitting

• We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Words
  • Things
  • Same

• How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Life
  • Dream

• I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Instrument
  • Ukulele