Neil Peart Quotes
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
Quotes to Explore
-
The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
-
I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
-
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
-
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
-
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
-
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
-
Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
-
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
-
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
-
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
-
To survive is to win.
-
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
-
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
-
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
-
Lunch is for wimps.
-
I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.
-
Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
-
When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
-
My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
-
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.
-
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.
-
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
-
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
