Neil Peart Quotes

To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

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• I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Love

• People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Doing
  • Building

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Virtue
  • Reputation
  • Rarely

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Books
  • Reasons
  • Explain

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
  • Stop
  • Week

• I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Pretty
  • Play
  • Always

• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Impossible
  • Even
  • Zero

• After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Long
  • Design
  • Clothes

• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Picture

• I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • School
  • Myself

• A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

  

  William Godwin
  • Action
  • Individual
  • Duty

• The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

  

  Benjamin Cohen
  • Truth
  • Small

• I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Guy

• To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Enemy