John Gourley Quotes

My first concert was Pantera.

John Gourley Portugal. The Man

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• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Square

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Atheist
  • Unfair
  • Humanist

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Help
  • Think
  • Key

• The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • See
  • I See

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue their obligations to their exes in the form of alimony or child support; women are not required to continue their obligation to their exes in the form of homemaking or nurturing.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Support

• I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Life
  • God
  • Why

• People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• Todo es nada, pero después, Después de haberlo sufrido todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Important
  • Champagne

• When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk

• I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Personality

• I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Sister

• I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Day
  • Write

• He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

  

  James Dickey

• My first concert was Pantera.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man