Rod Stewart Quotes

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

Rod Stewart

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• Burning

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• Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Faith

• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Diary

• I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Love
  • Night

• Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kids
  • Talent
  • Focused

• There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Problems

• I never like seeing myself on screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Seeing

• Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Small
  • Lies
  • Beach

• I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Help
  • Feeling

• It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.

  

  Taliesin
  • Bitter

• He left a corsair's name to other times,Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.

  

  Lord Byron

• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Succeed
  • Sunset
  • Favourite

• I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • God
  • Me
  • Loved

• I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • People
  • Surface
  • Neurotic

• Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Honest
  • Speech
  • Wordless

• If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Succeed
  • Argument
  • Fit

• You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Desire
  • Succeed
  • Burning