Dave Grohl Quotes

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Country
  • Society
  • Political

• Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Steps
  • Dogs

• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Love
  • Want
  • Reading

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Job
  • Rich

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Law
  • Husband
  • Wall

• If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Cool
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Experience
  • Process
  • System

• My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Bored
  • Nervous
  • Interests

• Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Age
  • End

• I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

  

  Abbie Cobb
  • Lucky
  • Personal
  • Bartender

• You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.

  

  Steve Daines
  • Issues
  • Washington
  • Farmers

• You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Odor

• There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Understand
  • Brains
  • Kinds

• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Real

• When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Record
  • Produce
  • Decca

• With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Lyrics
  • Record
  • Album