Deryck Quotes & Sayings

According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cooke
that Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their lives
were so hard that they didn't really know what happiness was anyway. — David Byrne

Facts are stubborn things, — David McCullough

He told me that a German doctor named Wolff figured it out in the 1800s by studying X-rays of infants' hips as they transitioned from crawling to walking. "A whole new evolution of bone structure takes place to support the mechanical loads associated with walking," said Lang. "Wolff had the great insight that form follows function." Alas, Wolff did not have the great insight that cancer follows gratuitous X-raying with primitive nineteenth-century X-ray machines. — Mary Roach

The explosion of companies deploying wireless networks insecurely is creating vulnerabilities, as they think it's limited to the office - then they have Johnny Hacker in the parking lot with an 802.11 antenna using the network to send threatening emails to the president! — Kevin Mitnick

September 11 definitely opened our eyes, but when I was 19 or whatever on the last record, we just didn't care about anything. We were too young to care about anything. And then as you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. That just kind of opened everyone's eyes (which I probably wish it did to more people) that there's obviously something wrong, to try and figure out what it is and what's going on in the world. — Deryck Whibley

I hate Mcdonalds ... but i'm forced to eat it. — Deryck Whibley

The world is a library and we are its stories. — Renata Bowers

The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible. — Deryck Whibley

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark. — Deryck Whibley

Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul. — Gary Zukav

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair. — Deryck Whibley

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation
and it's called October, — Pete Rose

I find that the 'moms club' is a very, very exclusive club! It's the club of mothers who wear skinny jeans and white button-down shirts and wash their hair twice a day! I do not, and mothers who do make me feel really bad. You know who I am talking about! — Marissa Jaret Winokur

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink. — Deryck Whibley

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out. — Deryck Whibley

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all. — Socrates

People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips — Cynthia Ozick

I think it's really important to sustain your dreams. Because a person without a dream will lose his or her will to live. Even if it's just a small dream, it means a lot to that person. — Jaejoong

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything. — Chris Carmack