Neil Young Quotes
In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
Quotes to Explore
-
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
-
People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
-
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
-
My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
-
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
-
L.A. is definitely a Marmite sort of place for me. I used to hate it, but now I love it. I think it really helps if you know the places and the restaurants and the nice bars to go to and if you have friends there. I've got some friends over there now, and they're not all actors, which is quite refreshing, and now I have a great time there.
-
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
-
In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
-
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
-
Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.
-
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
-
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
-
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
-
Growing up, I never felt like I was very pretty, because I didn't look like anyone else, and the boys weren't lining up to get with me. I internalized that and thought there was something wrong with me.
-
I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
-
I always have sort of been someone who has contradictory parts, and I haven't tried to uncomplicate myself. I've sort of let things seem contradictory, and sometimes it really confuses people. I don't know if it's working all the time, but I'd rather do that than try to sell myself as one thing or another.
-
I like being part of a team.
-
My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'
-
Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
-
Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
-
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
-
As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregivers don’t only feed us, dress us, and comfort us when we are upset; they shape the way our rapidly growing brain perceives reality. Our interactions with our caregivers convey what is safe and what is dangerous: whom we can count on and who will let us down; what we need to do to get our needs met. This information is embodied in the warp and woof of our brain circuitry and forms the template of how we think of ourselves and the world around us. These inner maps are remarkably stable across time.
-
In my little boxAt the top of the stairWith my Indian rugAnd a pipe to share.
