John Fogerty Quotes

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival

• Own

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Lucky
  • Enormous
  • Metabolism

• I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Done
  • Want
  • Star

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Father
  • Loved
  • Fathers Day

• My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Inspired
  • Dancing
  • Little

• You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Man
  • Effort

• When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Fear
  • Know
  • Unknown

• I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • World
  • Boy

• The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Senses

• My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Father
  • Anxiety
  • Afraid

• Greed has no boundaries.

  

  Aristotle
  • Greed
  • Boundaries

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• It's such a delicate business, the structure of film, isn't it? What happens if a scene is not there but two minutes later? It's an eternal, never-ending search, actually, which is very exciting. It really is.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Business
  • Film
  • Search

• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Afraid
  • Own
  • Shadows

• Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Own