Paul Simon Quotes

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Movie
  • I Love
  • Premiere

• It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Desire
  • Common

• If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Jesus
  • Amazed

• Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Living
  • Safe

• Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • May
  • Fear

• What I know for sure is that if you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal. I know ours is.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Men
  • War
  • Evil

• A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

  

  Oenomaus
  • Life
  • Men
  • Fighting

• I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• When we stay close to the wisdom of our knowing, seeking solutions to our problems in the sanctuary of the heart and not in the vanity of the mind, then we can pretty much trust in the unfolding, mysterious wisdom of life.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Done
  • Help
  • Said

• I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Soul
  • BlackBerry pie

• Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Skills
  • Degrees

• She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Together
  • Faces
  • Answers

• If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Song
  • Fingers

• People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Innocent

• No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Should
  • Hands
  • Violent

• You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fingers
  • Piece
  • Cultivate