Tom Petty Quotes

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Change
  • Progress
  • Human

• When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Music
  • Thought

• I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

  

  Larry King
  • Doing
  • Questions
  • Asking

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friends

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
  • Smart
  • Relationships

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Man
  • Nothing

• I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Think
  • Relationships
  • Doors

• There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Moving
  • Myself
  • Race

• I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Technology

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • Real
  • Help

• Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Writing
  • Internet
  • Alcohol

• I haven't played a single game all year. This is bullshit!

  

  Georges Laraque
  • Game
  • Year
  • Played

• As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Audience
  • Solo Artist
  • Band Member

• The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Should
  • Audience
  • Angry

• I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

  

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