Neil Young Quotes

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Dots

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Angry

• My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• The thing about death is that it's honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Death
  • Honest
  • About

• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Home
  • She
  • House

• My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Different
  • Play
  • Problem

• After the first million, money isn't important.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Important
  • Money
  • First

• I love doing voiceover work.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Voiceover

• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Group

• In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• China might seem quite successful in its controls, but it has only raised the water level. It’s like building a dam: it thinks there is more water so it will build higher. But every drop of water is still in there. It doesn’t understand how to let the pressure out. It builds up a way to maintain control and push the problem to the next generation.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Up
  • Control
  • Water

• Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Done
  • Charity

• I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

  

  Paula Creamer

• It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • People
  • Good

• Me?! What? I don’t know, unless I must go to the dictionary and learn what a crook is. I’ve never been a crook. ... I'm saying I'm not a crook, I have never been a crook. I will never be a crook.

  

  Jacob Zuma

• I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Game
  • Play

• In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.

  

  Clark Durant
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • God
  • Preacher
  • Hangman