Neil Young Quotes
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
Quotes to Explore
-
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
-
I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
-
Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
-
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
-
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
-
Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
-
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
-
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
-
We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
-
I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
-
I wasn't a great background singer.
-
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
-
It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.
-
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
-
-the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.
-
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
-
They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.
-
What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
-
If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.
-
I take every day like a big challenge.
-
If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.
-
Sometimes when I'm healthier on a big day, I feel better about myself.
-
When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
-
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
