Conor Oberst Quotes

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

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• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

  

  Flume
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Push

• I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Theory

• I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Used

• 'Like I told you, I'm not a magician,' he says. 'If something isn't working, I don't try to guess.'

  

  Uri Geller

• Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Hope
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• on having a gay child And the Three Wise Drag Queens would come, bearing gifts of 1000-thread-count sheets, hair products by Frédéric Fekkai, and a copy of the Immaculate Collection.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Hair
  • Wise
  • Gay

• I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Men
  • Jealousy

• Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.

  

  Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • People
  • Up

• My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Worry

• The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Father

• I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Door

• I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

  

  Bryan Brown
  • Money
  • Art
  • Movie

• As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Law
  • Beginning
  • Democracy

• I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Trying
  • Together

• I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Like
  • Got
  • Austin

• I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

  

  Matt Emmons
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes