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

• Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

  

  Esther Forbes
  • Romantic
  • Image
  • Heroes

• I don't want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it's basically a mystery. It's like the Mona Lisa smile. It's both complex and very simple at the same time. And, well, people like it. Even today.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Magic
  • Smile
  • Mystery

• While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

  

  Sallust
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Soul

• Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Heart
  • Exist
  • Instrument

• 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