79549 Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was easier, too - to go out alone and see if these songs could get in a couple of fistfights and still be standing. — Annie E. Clark

The sooner you be yourself, the happier you'll become. — Lisa M. Cronkhite

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do. — Jean Monnet

My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.' — Lupe Fiasco

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. — Kristin Scott Thomas

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. — Jon Ronson

I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ... Nobody knows how it can be like that. — Richard P. Feynman

Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another. — Mark Driscoll

I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. — Garry Wills

For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance. — Brunello Cucinelli

I'm going to be a great leader of this generation.
The stars in the space up there are my witnesses. — Toba Beta

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. — John Guare

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them. — Mary Szybist

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses. — Stan Kroenke

I'm pretty close with a lot of guys, like Nick Watney and Steve Marino, D.J. Trahan and Charlie Warren. — Dustin Johnson