Tom Petty Quotes

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

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• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Live
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Focus

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• Nothing should be noticed.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Should
  • Nothing
  • Noticed

• I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Like
  • Old
  • Disney

• I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Brain
  • Use
  • Both

• We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Story
  • Forgotten

• My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Justice
  • Independent
  • German

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Book

• Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.

  

  Paul A. Volcker
  • American
  • Bad
  • Latin

• I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.

  

  Doris Day
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Wind
  • Guitar
  • Sing