Springfield Up Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything looks better with my eyes closed. — Rick Springfield

I find it an effort to keep up appearances. — Dusty Springfield

He doesn't stop talking for most of the three-hour flight about his time in "'Nam." Finally the conversation slows, and I ask him what he's done since leaving the army.

He sums it up in three words: "I'm in insurance."

And that's it. That's all he has to say about the following forty years.

I think I may be in a similar situation with the whole marriage bit. Three words: "I got married. — Rick Springfield

It came as no surprise that another visitor to Springfield found Lincoln on November 14 "reading up anew" on the history of Andrew Jackson's response to the 1832 Nullification Crisis. While he made no effort to conceal "the uneasiness which the contemplated treason gives him," Lincoln assured his guest that, like Jackson, he would not "yield an inch. — Harold Holzer

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name — Stephen Stills

My Dear,
These are the memories of my life as a child. This is the story of the world before I was here, the universe I was born into, that I came to love before I had to grow up, find rent and suffer hangovers. This is the story of how I became this overgrown adult with crooked teeth and scars. - Springfield Road — Salena Godden

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll watch any show on the History Channel. — 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 was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years. — Rick Springfield

I mean I was famous for nothing. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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