Croce Quotes & Sayings

My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again — Jim Croce

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning. — Arlene Croce

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day — Jim Croce

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. — Benedetto Croce

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here. — Jim Croce

We are products of the past and we live immersed in the past, which encompasses us. How can we move towards the new life, how create new activities without getting out of the past and without placing ourselves above it? And how can we place ourselves above the past if we are in it and it is in us? There is no other way out except through thought, which does not break off relations with the past but rises ideally above it and converts it into knowledge. — Benedetto Croce

A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce

Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same. — Jim Croce

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. — Arlene Croce

If you want different, you have to think and act different. — Pat Croce

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind. — Arlene Croce

There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life. — Jim Croce

Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart. — David Shoemaker

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius. — Jim Croce

Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that feeling without image is blind, and image without feeling is void. — Benedetto Croce

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce

After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are. — Jim Croce

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything. — Paul Stookey

Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain — Jim Croce

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me. — Jim Croce

All history is contemporary history. — Benedetto Croce

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man. — Arlene Croce

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice. — Jim Croce

She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that. — Jim Croce

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied. — Benedetto Croce

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you. — Jim Croce

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else. — Benedetto Croce

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind. — Jim Croce

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song. — Jim Croce

My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth. — Mario Puzo

I have a really small rear-view mirror in my life. I look at the rear-view mirror for memories and learning experiences, but I've got a big front windshield and I'm looking at right now. I've got so many projects on my plate. — Pat Croce

If you don't like what you're getting, then change what you're doing. It's up to you. — Pat Croce

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man. — Jim Croce

Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time. — Jim Croce

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim. — Jim Croce

Ballet is only good when it is great. — Arlene Croce

Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own. — Pat Croce

Moving ahead, so life won't pass me by. — Jim Croce

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO! — Pat Croce

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am. — Jim Croce

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past ... The writing of history liberates us from history. — Benedetto Croce

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't. — Arlene Croce

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you. — Jim Croce

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living. — Raymond Chandler

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do. — Arlene Croce

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius. — Jim Croce

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human ... No people will be truly free till all are free. — Benedetto Croce

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now. — Pat Croce

Anything can be worked out, between anyone, at anytime, when you want the outcome bad enough. — Pat Croce

Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued. — George Steiner

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well. — Benedetto Croce

The translation called good has original value as a work of art. — Benedetto Croce

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with. — Jim Croce

If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice. — Jim Croce

Art is what everyone knows it is. — Benedetto Croce

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore. It is on display at the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit, like Galileo's finger in the church of Santa Croce, but Edison's last breath is an invisible relic. — Elizabeth Alexander

Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy. — Arlene Croce

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind. — Jim Croce

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics. — Denis Leary

I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels. — Jim Croce

Nobody loves a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love. — Jim Croce

He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. — Jim Croce