Diana Krall Quotes

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Diana Krall

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
  • Matter

• I've signed a few sneakers in my day.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Day
  • Few
  • Sneakers

• Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

  

  Kate Williams
  • High
  • Empire
  • 19th-Century

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Amazing

• The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Judge
  • Green

• I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Father
  • Think
  • Insecurity

• We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Important
  • Yourself
  • Loved

• In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Practice
  • My Own

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of music, it's easy to get sideways.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Easy

• I is here with the geezer who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. His name be none other than my man, Boutros Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen

• Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;The days of our youth are the days of our glory;And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twentyAre worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great
  • Sweet

• They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. Mick Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.

  

  Anita Pallenberg
  • Up
  • Guy

• A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

  

  Andrew Bogut
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Stupid

• All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.

  

  David Farr
  • God
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Life
  • Humble

• I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.

  

  James Vincent McMorrow
  • Good

• Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

  

  Claude Vorilhon
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

  

  Diana Krall