Hakan Nordkvist Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world. — Fanny Crosby

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. — Sam Snead

Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life. — Georges F. Doriot

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton

Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a neat row at the local Promise Land Cemetery was not an argument in her defense. — K. Martin Beckner

Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice:
It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice. — Q-Tip

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar — Samuel Johnson

In the beginning there was rhythm. — Hans Von Bulow

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. "The slight trip syndrome," we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react. — Peter Bowles

Chastity - you can carry it too far. — Mark Twain

Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life. — S.R. Crawford

I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me. — Rick Baker