Paul Simon Quotes

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

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• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Life
  • Help
  • You

• I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Sexy
  • Naughty
  • Naugthy

• We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Hope
  • Father

• Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Rest

• Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Black
  • Crazy
  • Teacher

• I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Way
  • Goals
  • Struggles

• Loved people are loving people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loving

• We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?

  

  Amanullah Khan
  • Why
  • Independent
  • Independence

• The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Work
  • Way
  • Minute

• President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Great
  • Today
  • Chicago

• When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Long
  • Wisdom
  • Engineer

• You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Rejection

• Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Children
  • Mercy

• If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

  

  Albert Camus
  • History
  • Meaning
  • Own Lives

• As an introvert, you have to spend a lot of time with me and then little bits of my personality will come out over time. But as an artist, sometimes you only get five minutes to impress someone, so it is kind of hard.

  

  Nina Nesbitt
  • Artist
  • Impress
  • Introvert

• The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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