Marianne Faithfull Quotes

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Marianne Faithfull

• Sick

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fans

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

  

  Quintilian
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Everything

• The biggest killer of people is food.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Food
  • Killer

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• My whole life is a theater piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Life Is A

• It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Bad
  • End

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Action

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Back

• So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• Pessimism never won any battle.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • Single
  • Passion

• I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

  

  Lianne La Havas
  • Good
  • Important
  • Women

• Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

  

  William Cowper
  • Quality
  • Sick
  • Lying

• You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Way
  • Sick
  • Secret

• I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Sick