Neil Young Quotes

Shelter me from the powderAnd the fingerCover me with the thoughtThat pulled the triggerThink of meAs one you'd never figuredWould fade away so youngWith so much left undone.

Neil Young Buffalo Springfield

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• I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Artist
  • Use
  • Going

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Think
  • Television

• You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Morning
  • Couple

• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Free

• I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Play
  • Name

• I am a musician who also does love to explore the world in many ways, so my approaching with my songs, videos, and haikus is: 'Make It Real.'

  

  Flula Borg
  • World
  • Real
  • Explore

• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Words
  • Couple

• The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Members
  • Judges
  • Judiciary

• When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Things
  • Negative

• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Rich
  • University
  • Ireland

• Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Theater

• But if any other course, in any one's opinion, be better than this, let him, even though he be a private soldier, boldly give us his sentiments; for the safety, which we all seek, is a general concern.

  

  Xenophon
  • Opinion
  • Safety
  • Soldier

• I don’t know where to begin my speech. I don’t know what people would be expecting me to say, but first of all thank you to God for whom we are equal and thank you to every person who has prayed for my fast recovery and new life.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Die

• La mémoire de la plupart des hommes est un cimetière abandonné, où gisent sans honneurs des morts qu'ils ont cessé de chérir.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

• When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Music

• The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • People
  • Education
  • Hurt

• I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Death
  • Wisdom
  • Benefit

• I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Gay
  • I Love
  • Supportive

• Shelter me from the powderAnd the fingerCover me with the thoughtThat pulled the triggerThink of meAs one you'd never figuredWould fade away so youngWith so much left undone.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield