Norah Jones Quotes

I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play

Norah Jones

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • School
  • Practice

• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Know
  • Memory
  • Survival

• I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Me

• At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Character
  • Career

• I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with on 'Austin & Ally;' the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I'm so happy they're in my life!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • School
  • High
  • Year

• Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Actor

• I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Actor

• I don't like guys who overdress. And I don't like guys who try too hard.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Like
  • Hard
  • Try

• Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Distance

• This little bathtub smells like ass.24.

  

  Ze Frank

• She seemed to have neither sense of fullness nor taste, and would often combine foods in manners that struck Blue as problematic. She didn't believe in telling people how to live their lives (well, maybe a little), but it was hard to stand by and watch Gwenllian spread peanut butter on a cold hot dog.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Job

• We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

  

  Jerome Flynn
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Evil

• I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Confidence

• If it's a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like 'Tintin,' a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Movie

• I'm not a girl anymore.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Girl

• I love the things that you've given meI cherish you my dear countryBut sometimes I don't understand the way we play

  

  Norah Jones