Tom Petty Quotes
Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
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I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
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I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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These days I'm pretty much a businessman.
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
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Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
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And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy, ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road.
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Time when grown men believed in elves and goblins as naturally as they believed in trees.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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As far as we're concerned, we all have opinions on different things, but just because you're in a group and you can broadcast them doesn't mean your opinion is right.
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Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.
