Tom Petty Quotes

Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

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• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Easy

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Wait

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Product
  • Extraordinary

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Life
  • Free
  • Space

• I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Sadness

• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Know

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • True
  • Dream
  • Summer

• If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Work
  • War
  • Peace

• Celebrate yourself. Follow your passions and eccentricities, because they are yours alone. You are unique! If everyone did that, I'm pretty sure there would be world peace.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'

  

  J. D. Salinger

• In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Up
  • She
  • Relationship

• This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Night
  • Baby
  • Shakes

• The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Long
  • Friend

• Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Night
  • Baby