Bonnie Raitt Quotes

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

Bonnie Raitt

Quotes to Explore

I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

Harmony Korine
- Inspiration
- Movies
- Video
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- May
- Poetry
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

J. William Fulbright
- Power
- Feeling
- Kind
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Napoleon Hill
- Food
- Environment
- Care
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith
- Want
- Own
- Limits
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

Sam Phillips
- Good
- Soul
- Man