Earl Nightingale Quotes
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
-
We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
-
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
-
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
-
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
-
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
-
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
-
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
-
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
-
I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
-
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
-
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
-
Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
-
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
-
Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
-
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
-
Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
-
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
-
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
-
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
-
We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
-
I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.
-
Consider this 're-make' business that is taking away opportunities for new ideas and new films to happen. If the movie was made right the first time, why make it again? The only reason this is happening is it has become a safer way for the Studios.
-
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
