Paul Simon Quotes

And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And Generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Grandmother
  • Characters
  • Manners

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lose

• I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kids

• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • People
  • Time
  • Energy

• There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Different
  • She
  • Wife

• War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • War
  • Problem
  • Solution

• You must find something you want to live for that's bigger than yourself - a mission - whether it's your children, a business, a non-profit, whatever. That pulls you to achieve, which is far more sustainable than to push yourself to. You can only push yourself for so long.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Long
  • Children
  • Achieve

• And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And Generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Men
  • Long
  • War