Eleanor Rigby Quotes & Sayings

As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them. — Jonny Greenwood

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal. — Pattiann Rogers

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song. — Joe Meno

Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz — Henry Bird

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. — P.D. James

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong? — Jonathan Safran Foer

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon. — Adam Schlesinger

A lot of people have a particular song that, no matter their mood, turns them on. With me, it's Eleanor Rigby. — Dana Gould

When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it actually takes me two hours to get up to Leicester. — Tom Hopper

Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him. — Craig Groeschel

My favorite part of dreams. Clothing is optional. (V'Aiden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music. — George Takei

Carol's life seemed sad in an Eleanor Rigby kind of way. — Una Tiers

we're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount. — David Lagercrantz

I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann. — Joel Edgerton

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them ... My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners ...
It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment ... But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us. — Martin Luther

Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding principle. — David Alpay