John Popper Quotes

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Night
  • Energy

• You hate to think one of those kids is not going to get a trophy for Player of the Year. There are numerous awards, and ideally they would split them. If Morrison doesn't get a Player of the Year award, I'll buy him a gold trophy, call it the Dickie V. P-T-Per Award and ship it out to him myself.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Player

• The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt.

  

  Zeina
  • Health
  • Spiritual
  • Growth

• Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hero
  • Tragedy
  • Virtues

• Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

  

  Plato
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Confused

• In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • People
  • Religious
  • Western

• Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Commitment

• It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Woman
  • Fortune
  • Cautious

• Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Solitude

• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  

  George Washington
  • Liberty
  • Show
  • Encourage

• I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Designers
  • Went
  • Look Like

• Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Dream

• I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that's what I focused on with my father - making it a reality.

  

  Vasyl Lomachenko
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Champion

• Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Today
  • Earth
  • Movement

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Stop

• Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Culture
  • Literature
  • Video Games

• Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

  

  John Popper
  • Bottom
  • Disgrace