John Lennon Quotes

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • You
  • Steps
  • Dogs

• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Like

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Body

• One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Will
  • Others
  • Himself

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Up

• I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True

• Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Better
  • Mistakes
  • Anything

• Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Help
  • Man
  • Heaven

• I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Reporter
  • Weigh

• You're fourteen years old. You've only had that hair for fourteen years and you want to change it already! How bored are you going to be with it by the time you are thirty? What color will you be up to by then?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hair

• Wait for the fruit to fall into your hand.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Hand
  • Fall

• I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Pretty
  • Period
  • Humans

• I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Sleep

• I'm very much a creature of habit.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Inspiration

• When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

  

  Edward Norton Lorenz
  • Cause
  • Butterfly
  • Swings

• It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

  

  Plutarch
  • Produce
  • Troublesome
  • Oration

• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Image
  • Souls

• When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Record
  • Produce
  • Decca