Conor Oberst Quotes

We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

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• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Art
  • Fast
  • Bowling

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Garden

• As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Interesting

• I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

  

  Albert Finney
  • Truth

• I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

  

  Jessica Biel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Remember

• I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• God has always been hard on the poor.

  

  Jean-Paul Marat
  • God

• It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing.

  

  Jake Roberts
  • People
  • Time
  • Sad

• Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

  

  Mark Waters
  • High
  • Comedy
  • Sports

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • World
  • Heart
  • Song

• My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.

  

  Richard Prince
  • Place
  • Fearless
  • Outside

• We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Pain
  • Killing
  • Medication