Mark Foster Quotes

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

Mark Foster Foster the People

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• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Art
  • Look
  • Prejudice

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Chaos

• I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Travel

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

  

  Nas
  • New York
  • Brave
  • Hip Hop

• There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• I don't read the critics.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Read
  • Critics

• My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • World
  • Dad
  • Player

• She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Forgive
  • Herself

• I love workout clothes you feel phenomenal in.

  

  Briga Heelan
  • Workout

• I'm very happy alone.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Very

• Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Song
  • Alone
  • Friend

• Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Alone
  • Thoughts