Tom Petty Quotes
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
-
This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
-
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
-
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
-
I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
-
Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
-
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
-
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
-
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
-
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
-
I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
-
Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
-
Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
-
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
-
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
-
Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.
-
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
-
O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.
-
I believe most things can be said in a few lines.
-
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
