Dave Matthews Quotes

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

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• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Know
  • Play
  • Golf

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Fortune
  • Every Man

• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Design

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • English
  • Degree
  • Academic

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Men
  • Job

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Heart

• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Made

• The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Love
  • Struggle

• Democracy without morality is impossible.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Democracy
  • Morality
  • Without

• I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Small
  • Shoes