Tom Petty Quotes

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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• Mediocrity
• Upstairs

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• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Lies
  • Taste
  • Mediocrity

• When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Boys
  • Conservative
  • Weight

• The boys that lose our directioners are so stupid, they will never find such beautiful girls in the whole entire world.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Sometimes, the girls hug all boys except me, and I just smile, but it hurts.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Girl
  • Smile
  • Boys

• Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Car
  • Boys
  • Refrigerator

• Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way Cant you hear that Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass He got that super bass Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass Yeah that's that super bass

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Way
  • Boy
  • Boys

• I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Gay
  • Sexy
  • Boys

• Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Words
  • Running

• There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Looks
  • Bird
  • Boys

• My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didnt think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Mother

• If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Funny
  • Boys
  • Laugh

• I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Book

• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
  • Business
  • Goal
  • Goals

• Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?" "Sorry, George, dear." "Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Sorry

• Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn, boundlessly inventive. . . . This is an auspicious debut.

  

  Valerie Sayers
  • Character
  • Boy
  • Boys

• Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Father
  • Lost
  • Eyes

• There is Truth, the truth of the Truth and there is Peace. The Truth is 'the boy stole an apple', the truth of the Truth is 'the boy was hungry' and Peace is 'nobody stole anything, now, give the boy an apple!'

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Boy

• I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Reading

• At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Way
  • Boys
  • Faith In God

• Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Good
  • Film
  • Wanted

• I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Guy
  • Lasts
  • Jokes

• As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Boys
  • Mediocrity
  • Upstairs