Paul Simon Quotes

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• Lover
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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Dreams
  • Week

• You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Surprised
  • Self-Esteem
  • Addict

• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Words
  • Light
  • Speak

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Want
  • Start

• You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Hurt

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• 'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Art

• At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Age

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

  

  Matt Lucas
  • Up
  • Night
  • Funny

• I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Good
  • Music
  • Family

• Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Help

• I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Night
  • Lover
  • Glad To See