Conor Oberst Quotes

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• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• I'm a giant Beatles fan.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Fan
  • Beatles
  • Giant

• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fly

• Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

  

  Don McLean
  • Live
  • True
  • Dream

• [Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Catholic

• Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Boundaries

• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  

  Kate (Ma) Barker
  • Lies

• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• I have reason to be grateful to Dr. Cook for favors received; I lived with his folks while I was suffering with my eyes, due to snow blindness, but I feel that all of the debts of gratitude have been liquidated by my silence in this controversy, and I will have nothing more to say in regard to him or to his claims.

  

  Matthew Henson
  • Eyes
  • Suffering
  • Snow blindness

• People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Beat
  • Bank

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Children
  • Impossible
  • Hatred

• You never want to make a "message movie," but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Talking
  • Messages

• Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Fields
  • Windows

• Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nature
  • Spirit
  • Suffer

• We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Messages
  • Spread
  • Solidarity