John Lennon Quotes

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

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• I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It's like a festive home for me.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Life
  • Home
  • Culture

• I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• The introduction of heartache began as a child.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Heartache

• That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Night
  • Comforting
  • Grenades

• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • Company

• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Thoughts
  • Spirit
  • London

• A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Book
  • Reader
  • Material

• It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Minutes

• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Sweet

• Express your ideas with the world

  

  Mitchel Resnick
  • World
  • Ideas

• Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

  

  Hesham Qandil
  • World
  • Excellence
  • Becoming

• If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

  

  Susan Bysiewicz
  • Woman
  • Leader
  • Confident

• Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Song
  • Memories

• I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Band

• In the golden era of the 60s, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones dominated the American charts.

  

  Ricky Wilson Kaiser Chiefs
  • The Beatles
  • Charts
  • Golden Era

• I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • History
  • The Beatles
  • Rory Storm

• I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Music
  • Mountain
  • I Remember

• I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • The Beatles