Neil Young Quotes

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

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• There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Hair

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Free
  • Fear

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Manners are love in a cool climate.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Cool
  • Manners

• I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Making

• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Value

• Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Powerful

• Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Up
  • God

• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • People
  • Writing

• I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People

• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Joy

• As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Team
  • Football

• The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Past
  • Period

• The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • People
  • Together
  • Technology

• Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Promise
  • Paris

• An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Creative
  • Reader
  • Active

• Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Man
  • Humiliating
  • Fly-Fishing

• The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Up
  • Together
  • Lost

• There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield