Neil Peart Quotes

Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)

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• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Difference

• I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.

  

  Flume
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Start

• Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Freedom
  • Religion
  • Thought

• If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • True
  • Journey
  • Stay True

• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Happy
  • Storm
  • Passed

• I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Always
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Business
  • Best

• There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Home
  • Better
  • Walking

• For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May

• This is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Knowledge

• The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Culture

• Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Training
  • Divorce

• The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Peace

• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Hell
  • Musical
  • Amateurs

• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Fawn-Colored

• President Obama's decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantanamo detainees is a failure of leadership in the project of putting American law on a sound basis for a long-term confrontation with terrorism. It is bad for the country, for national security, and for civil liberties.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Leadership
  • Congress
  • Terrorism

• Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)

  

  Neil Peart Rush