John Mellencamp Quotes

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

John Mellencamp

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Most

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • Job
  • Camera

• I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Car

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

  

  Pam Brown
  • People
  • Dark
  • Courage

• When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Road

• I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Home
  • New

• Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Free
  • Choose
  • Possibilities

• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Power
  • Night

• In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Change

• While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Eye

• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I was used to having stones in my hands, but I realized now I needed both hands free to get to work… On me.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Work
  • Free
  • Hands

• It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Art
  • Quality
  • Magic

• World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

  

  Ken Follett
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Free