Joe Elliott Quotes

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

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• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Important
  • Touch

• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Learn
  • Horse
  • Ride

• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Anger
  • Quick
  • Subtle

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Life
  • May
  • Man

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Truth
  • Same
  • Truth Is

• I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Never
  • Acting
  • Okay

• My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Life
  • Family
  • Proud

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Men
  • Fool

• To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

  

  Coventry Patmore

• For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• Dostoevsky once wrote: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted'; and that, for existentialism, is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself. He discovers forthwith, that he is without excuse.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Existentialism

• The common sense has kind of kept me completely out of trouble. This is a life where it could have went a different way. I feel like I'm definitely being watched and I'm so thankful for that to feel this protected and loved and embraced by God.

  

  Gabrielle Dennis
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Follow

• The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Powers
  • Gita
  • Demonstrates

• I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Die

• When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Parents

• We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Smile
  • Wanted
  • Faces