Paul Simon Quotes

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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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

• If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Room
  • Put
  • Item

• She’d painted her nails with rainbow stripes and it occurred to him that Vicki was just as beautiful and mysterious as a rainbow. One he’d been chasing for years without ever coming close to reaching the pot of gold at the end.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Rainbow
  • Painted
  • Reaching

• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Kill
  • Destroy
  • Destruction

• Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Victory
  • Kill
  • Destroy

• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  

  Rob Halford Judas Priest
  • Fans
  • Kill
  • Sing

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

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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