Starr Quotes & Sayings

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland. — Ringo Starr

Most dramatically, the Bridge served as an agonizing or exhilarating psychological symbol for the more than 1.2 million servicemen and women who sailed beneath it during World War II and for those soldiers and Marines who saw it from the air as their chartered World Airways or Flying Tiger plane took off from the Oakland Airport, banked westward across both bridges, and headed to Vietnam. Seen upon departure, whether from the channel or the air, the Golden Gate Bridge expressed the life left behind and the fearsome dangers to come. Seen upon return, the Bridge suggested safe harbor, recovery, the joy of life in years that now would be theirs. — Kevin Starr

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married ... as far as I'm concerned. — Ringo Starr

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit ... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards ... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it. — Ringo Starr

We must combat misinformation that is being spread. — Ken Starr

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good. — Antony Starr

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy. — Ringo Starr

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right. — Ringo Starr

Are you serious right now?" Hailey asks. "What's wrong with saying his life matters too?" "His life always matters more!" My voice is gruff, and my throat is tight. "That's the problem!" "Starr! — Angie Thomas

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance ... — John Keats

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other ... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain. — Ringo Starr

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. — Antony Starr

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul. — Ringo Starr

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country. — Hillary Clinton

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him. — Ringo Starr

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do. — Ken Starr

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. — David Starr Jordan

I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it. — Tipper Gore

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice. — Ringo Starr

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along ... and then The Beatles ... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well ... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history ... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids. — Ringo Starr

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat. — Ringo Starr

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you. — Ringo Starr

Peace and love, peace and love! — Ringo Starr

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. — Ringo Starr

What does it matter
when I make mistakes?
They don't
make me
who
I
am. — Caroline Starr Rose

I keep myself to myself pretty much. I'm not someone who gallivants around town looking for attention. — Antony Starr

Tell me about Gang Starr,' said Nishant, in an effort to start a conversation I'd be interested in.
'One MC, one DJ ... '
'Classic combo,' Anand affirmed.
'No hype man?'
'No.'
'What do we need Anand for?' Nishant shrugged, ever the pragmatist, never the catcher of feelings. — Nikesh Shukla

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world. — Edwin Starr

Julian of Norwich's message is as relevant now as it was in the Middle Ages: God loves us completely, exactly as we are. "Then he — Mirabai Starr

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies. — Thomas Starr King

What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil.
Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal? — Fredro Starr

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger. — David Starr Jordan

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned ... — Ringo Starr

I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw. — Belle Starr

In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like. — Ken Starr

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court. — Venus Williams

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated. — Janet Fitch

With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time. — Ringo Starr

From now on, the sound of my nights will be the sound of her abscence. — Kimberley Starr

There has to be an element of repetition for TV ... You want people to be addicted to your show, and the way to get people addicted is not to give it to them once, but to give it to them a few times, until they get on board with it. It's just about finding that balance of the necessary repetition and making the things that are repetitive absolutely necessary while keeping everything else fresh. — Antony Starr

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles. — Ringo Starr

[Historian] Kevin Starr has written that "the San Diego free speech battles revealed the depths of reaction possible in the threatened middle- and lower-middle classes of California." He argues that vigilantes were recruited from an anxious petty bourgeoisie, "who were uncertain and insecure in what they had gained or thought they had gained by coming to California." As in late Weimar Germany, "the oligarchy, which is to say, the upper-middle and upper classes, loathed and feared the [Industrial Workers of the World]; but oligarchs did not take to the streets as vigilantes. They did, however, encourage the lower-middle classes to do such work. — Justin Akers Chacon

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger. — Bart Starr

Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available to us only if legitimate governments have the power to govern. — Paul Starr

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable. — Ringo Starr

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow. — Kevin Starr

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great. — Ringo Starr

Students of the twenty-first century require flexible environments with ever growing capacities like the Internet where literally the world is at their fingertips. — Starr Sackstein

I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth. — Ringo Starr

They were known to pillage and plumage leaving few survivors — Maia Starr

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy. — Ringo Starr

As stated before, hypothyroidism may cause premature or delayed puberty. The majority of normal and hypothyroid females begin their cycle at ages 12 or 13. However, a growing number of those with hypothyroidism start their cycle years earlier or begin their periods at age 15 or later. Premature or delayed puberty in males is also becoming more common. — Mark Starr

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. — Ben Kingsley

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs. — Ken Starr

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. — Ringo Starr

One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive. — Scott Yanow

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting. — Ringo Starr

Agent Brendel: These are the descendants of our Lord. I myself have seen the documents that prove it. We have protected them and their predecessors for nineteen centuries, and whatever their appearance now, we believe - we know - their child will be the next messiah.

Starr: He's shitting in his hand, Brendel.

The brother hurls his feces at, and hits Agent Brendel in the face

Agent Brendel: Have faith, Herr Starr. — Garth Ennis

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool. — Ringo Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect. — Ken Starr

I love to work with people and do what I love. — Martin Starr

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill. — Ringo Starr

I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have. — Antony Starr

Everyone at health food stores and juice bars looked pale and sickly. Healthy-looking people ate at McDonald's. — Jason Starr

It's more than just selling pizzas. It's being a good fit for the community. We hire based on the betterment of the community as much as anything. — Mark Starr

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. — Bart Starr

When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle' ... it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant. — Ringo Starr

You were born rich and influential. You can do rich and influential in jammies and bunny slippers. — Starr Ambrose

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes. — Ken Starr

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. — Ringo Starr

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know. — Ringo Starr

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists. — Ringo Starr

Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery. — Starr Sackstein

I've learned one hell of a lot about men in my lifetime. They're all right to take to bed, but you sure better never let them get a stranglehold on you. — Blaze Starr

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know. — Ringo Starr

I am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that ... — Ringo Starr

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to. — Antony Starr

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo. — Ringo Starr

I am not here to accuse the media of anything. — Ken Starr

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. — David Starr Jordan

Mahmud's highly mobile army rarely fell below the force of 100,000 that he amassed to attack Balkh in 999.5 In recruiting and deploying his slave soldiers, Mahmud was blind to color, ethnicity, and religion. He did not hesitate, for example, to send Hindu forces against the Turkic, Persian, or Indian armies that were defending Muslim cities. Even his own household consisted mainly of slaves. Far from being constrained by his Muslim faith, Mahmud believed that the highest religious authority, the caliph, had validated his actions and confirmed all the dubious privileges he so freely exercised. — S. Frederick Starr

Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd — Robert Burns

There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own. — David Starr Jordan

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play. — Ringo Starr

Societies get the criminals they deserve-Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne — Douglas Starr

I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness. — Stephen Starr

I'd like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence. — Martin Starr

Desire and dedication are everything! — Bart Starr

As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water. — James Carville

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off. — Ringo Starr

I'm a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I've been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they're writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it's an interesting character at least. — Martin Starr

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album. — Ringo Starr

I think things just tend to fall into place ... if you let them. — Martin Starr

Nature never writes a blind hand. — Thomas Starr King

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton. — Thomas Starr King

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again. — Edwin Starr

I'm not one of those guys that's a purist when it comes to videogames. — Martin Starr

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world. — Antony Starr

I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information. — Ken Starr

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge. — Ringo Starr