Quotes & Sayings About Springfield

Just a week earlier, coincidentally, he had quietly terminated a little known year-and-a-half-long stint as silent co-owner of Springfield's German language newspaper. Lincoln had invested $400 in the publication in 1859 to ensure its total loyalty to the Republican party. Mission accomplished, he now turned over full ownership of the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, presses, type, and all, to his neighbor, editor Theodore Canisius. (Later, Lincoln further rewarded Canisius with a more valuable commodity: the consulate in Vienna.) — Harold Holzer

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me. — Rick Springfield

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way. — Rick Springfield

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up. — Brad Pitt

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them. — Rick Springfield

He flopped down beside me on the couch, closer than I would have expected, and when Micah strolled in a minute later and sat down on the other side of me, also close, I felt a twinge of weirdness. Not that I would mind being in a Springfield — Anonymous

Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.' — Johnny Rogan

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12. — Jenny Lewis

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic. — Rachel Cohn

When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says." — Jonah Hill

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing. — Rick Springfield

Some species moved north faster than others; when Europeans arrived in New England, earthworms had not yet returned. As the ice sheets withdrew, large chunks of ice broke off and were left behind. When these chunks melted, they left behind water-filled depressions in the ground called kettlehole ponds. Oakland Lake, near the north end of Springfield Boulevard in Queens, is one of these kettlehole ponds. The ice sheets also dropped boulders they'd picked up on their journey; some of these rocks, called glacial erratics, can be found in Central Park today. — Randall Munroe

08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions.
08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day a washout; incredibly embarrassing, unprofessional; indescribable. Delete entire day. — David Foster Wallace

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent. — Rick Springfield

Young female voices are the loudest voices of all with the fans. — Rick Springfield

I have seen my mugshot. — Rick Springfield

I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low. — Rick Springfield

Hell, have I been a hell-raiser! — Dusty Springfield

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ... — Stephen Stills

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean. — Rick Springfield

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete. — John Legend

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was. — Rick Springfield

Writing is like having a lover. Sometimes it's wonderful and sometimes it's a pain in the neck. — Rick Springfield

Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs. — Rick Springfield

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling. — Rick Springfield

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am. — Rick Springfield

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane. — Rick Springfield

I think good art does come from a dark place. — Rick Springfield

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to. — Rick Springfield

I'm surrounded by great guitar players. — Rick Springfield

Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules. — Will Hermes

I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, — Rachel Cohn

I'm a songwriter, principally, and I was real excited that people liked my songs, but you get a bit of an ego about it. — Rick Springfield

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand. — Dusty Springfield

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner. — Tommy Lasorda

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. — Dusty Springfield

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get. — Rick Springfield

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies. — Abraham Lincoln

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. — Newt Gingrich

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia. — Rick Springfield

The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over. — Tom Springfield

I've always treated women well. — Rick Springfield

I try to be as unsexy as possible. — Dusty Springfield

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it. — Dusty Springfield

I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield. — Sara Bareilles

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight. — Rick Springfield

BY THE END OF MY JUNIOR YEAR, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS WERE MAKING their way into the news. The first one I heard about was in 1997, when Luke Woodham killed two students and wounded seven others in Pearl, Mississippi. Two months later, in West Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Carneal killed three students at a high school prayer service. In March of 1998, Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden of Jonesboro, Arkansas - one aged thirteen, the other eleven - set off a fire alarm to make their fellow students run outside, then opened fire from the trees. They killed four students and a teacher. Finally, Kip Kinkel went on a rampage in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998. He murdered both of his parents at home, then went to school, killed two students, and wounded twenty-two others. — Brooks Brown

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time. — Rick Springfield

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails. — Rick Springfield

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons. — Rick Springfield

The restorative touch of our wounded healer, Jesus, highlights our brokenness, letting others know we're distinctly God's. - Scoti Springfield Domeij - — Gary Chapman

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful. — Dusty Springfield

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget. — Mark Kirk

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can. — Rick Springfield

The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...
This is a world of compensations; and he would -be- no slave must consent to -have- no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression. Your obedient Servant,
[Abraham Lincoln]
April 6, 1859, in a letter to MA State Rep Henry L. Pierce
Springfield, Ill. — Abraham Lincoln

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. — Rick Springfield

But, while Starkfield is modeled on a fairly specific place (New England), we can also think of it as any place that a person gets stuck in, any place where it seems impossible to stay, and impossible to leave. This can be a geographical location, a state of mind, a building or a city, or tiny kitchen on a broken down farm.

When we notice that there is also a "Springfield" in the story, we realize that Starkfield (stark meaning, hard, bare, difficult) really is supposed to be the place of eternal hardship. Springfield is the place Zeena goes to visit doctors and get medicine. This is perhaps to emphasize that Starkfield has the absolute worst kind of winters you can imagine. This also emphasizes that spring (and health) is always a false promise for the characters — Unknown

This thing's giving me an eye twitch," Ranger said. "Can you get the sound off?" I started pressing buttons and the screen went blank. "How's that?" I asked. "Babe, you shut the system down." "Yes, but the sound is off." "Reprogram it." "No need to get testy," I told him. "I don't know where I'm going." "I have a map. You just get on I-95 south and take the Springfield exit." "And then what?" "Then you'll have to pull over and reprogram the GPS." Ranger cut his eyes to me and there was the tiniest of smiles on his mouth. — Janet Evanovich

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart. — Dusty Springfield

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love. — Rick Springfield

The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things! — Rick Springfield

If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all. But if I should lose your love, dear, I don't know what I'd do, For I know I'll never find another you. — Tom Springfield

I mean I was famous for nothing. — Rick Springfield

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years. — Rick Springfield

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians. — Rick Springfield

I'll watch any show on the History Channel. — Rick Springfield

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock — Chris Hillman

One voice was raised in dissent. A Springfield lawyer, a former member of Congress and longtime Whig named Abraham Lincoln, took up Douglas's defense of Kansas-Nebraska at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield the day after Douglas spoke at the state fair. In the course of a three-hour speech, Lincoln proceeded to tear Kansas-Nebraska and popular sovereignty to shreds. — Allen C. Guelzo

I'd love to retouch my whole life. — Dusty Springfield

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate. — Rick Springfield

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything. — Rick Springfield

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road — Salena Godden

Indeed, Chicago seems to have literally sucked the air out of Springfield: another case of American becoming a network of massive city-states more intimately interconnected with other continents than with their own hinterlands. It is in the merging with the rest of the world and global civilization that the forces of division come to the fore at home. Springfield: another small city that should inspire but doesn't. — Robert D. Kaplan

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do. — Rick Springfield

I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield. — Rick Springfield

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. — Rick Springfield

Latimer Springfield was a rather cheerless, oldish young man, who went into politics somewhat in the spirit in which other people might go into half-mourning. — Saki

I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war? — Tom Springfield

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse. — Jim Messina

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois. — Paul Ryan

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands. — Rick Springfield

I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming! — Dusty Springfield

Everything looks better with my eyes closed. — Rick Springfield

Life is good. Yes, it's great. — Rick Springfield

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man. — Dusty Springfield

Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness. — Dusty Springfield

I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous. — Dusty Springfield

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video. — Rick Springfield

Historian David M. Potter pointed out in 1942 that as president-elect, Lincoln was no more than "simply a lawyer from Springfield, Illinois - a man of great undeveloped capacities and narrowly limited background. He was more fit to become President than to be President. — Harold Holzer

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated. — Rick Springfield

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around. — Rick Springfield

Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away. — Homer

For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes. — Kate Klise

Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon; but the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant. — H.P. Lovecraft

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens. — Rick Springfield

If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer. — Rick Springfield

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling. — Rick Springfield

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman. — Mike Scully