Conor Oberst Quotes
I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too longThen you blink and it's gone
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
-
I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
-
There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
-
Religion is induced insanity.
-
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
-
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
-
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
-
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
-
I've known Bret Michaels forever.
-
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
-
For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
-
I talk too much.
-
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
-
I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
-
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
-
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
-
In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare's plays. It's no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.
-
I cannot control what the Republicans leak and what they are contending.
-
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
-
I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too longThen you blink and it's gone
