Tom Petty Quotes

George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Words
  • Government
  • Military

• I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual

• The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Road
  • Creative
  • Process

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• I was a normal American nerd.

  

  Jack Herer
  • American
  • Normal
  • Nerd

• Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • May
  • New
  • Back

• My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Art

• I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• But everything of value about me is in my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Me
  • Value
  • Everything

• My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• 'Dirt On My Boots' is a very different song. I heard the melody, and I heard the lyrics, and I heard the drive of that song. I totally related. It was kinda me when I was on my bulldozer working for my dad.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Different
  • Song
  • Dad

• I am a very simple guy. Of course, popularity matters a lot, but for me, my health and family come first.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Health

• When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• My breakup with AT&T is final, and I'm done with Skype as the rebound guy.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Breakup

• Aucun homme n'a recu de la nature le droit de commander aux autres. La liberté est un présent du ciel, et chaque individu de la meme espèce a le droit d'en jouir aussitòt qu'il jouit de la raison.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Nature

• George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Guy
  • Leave
  • George Harrison